The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... faid , P. Tye up the knocker , say I'm fick , I'm dead . The Dog - star rages ! nay ' tis past a doubt , All Bedlam , or Parnassus , is let out : Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , 5 They rave , recite , and madden round the ...
... faid , P. Tye up the knocker , say I'm fick , I'm dead . The Dog - star rages ! nay ' tis past a doubt , All Bedlam , or Parnassus , is let out : Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , 5 They rave , recite , and madden round the ...
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... faid to be a Mechanic , a Hatter , a Farmer , nay a Bankrupt . But , what is stranger , a Nobleman ( if such a Reflection could be thought to come from a Nobleman ) had dropt an al- lufion to that pitiful untruth , in a paper called an ...
... faid to be a Mechanic , a Hatter , a Farmer , nay a Bankrupt . But , what is stranger , a Nobleman ( if such a Reflection could be thought to come from a Nobleman ) had dropt an al- lufion to that pitiful untruth , in a paper called an ...
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... species of fable : and , by iariching it with the best part of the comic art , may be faid to have brought it to perfection . * K * MA * Marmoris aut eboris fabros aut aeris amavit ; Suspendit Ep . I. 131 OF HORACE .
... species of fable : and , by iariching it with the best part of the comic art , may be faid to have brought it to perfection . * K * MA * Marmoris aut eboris fabros aut aeris amavit ; Suspendit Ep . I. 131 OF HORACE .
Page 201
... faid , I trust , without offence ; Let no Court Sycophant pervert my sense , Nor fly Informer watch these words to draw Within the reach of Treason , or the Law . 125 SATIRE IV . W ELL ; I may now receive Sat. II . 201 VERSIFIED .
... faid , I trust , without offence ; Let no Court Sycophant pervert my sense , Nor fly Informer watch these words to draw Within the reach of Treason , or the Law . 125 SATIRE IV . W ELL ; I may now receive Sat. II . 201 VERSIFIED .
Page 208
... faid , Nay your Apoftles were Good pretty Linguists ; so Panurgus was , Yet a poor Gentleman ; all these may pass By travail . Then , as if he would have fold His tongue , he prais'd it , and such wonders told , That I was fain to say ...
... faid , Nay your Apoftles were Good pretty Linguists ; so Panurgus was , Yet a poor Gentleman ; all these may pass By travail . Then , as if he would have fold His tongue , he prais'd it , and such wonders told , That I was fain to say ...
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Page 5 - Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 255 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 17 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 24 - Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord.
Page 231 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 5 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 16 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 29 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Page 155 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Page 23 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence...