The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... muft at least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can swear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; NOTES . 300 VER . 293.felfifhly approve , ] Because to deny , or pre- tend not to fee , a well established merit , would ...
... muft at least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can swear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; NOTES . 300 VER . 293.felfifhly approve , ] Because to deny , or pre- tend not to fee , a well established merit , would ...
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... muft I fay ? Take then this verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whose heart has ne'er forgot a Friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite And friend to Learning , yet too wife to write ...
... muft I fay ? Take then this verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whose heart has ne'er forgot a Friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite And friend to Learning , yet too wife to write ...
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... muft write , write CAESAR'S Praife , b You'll gain at least a Knighthood , or the Bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce , With ARMS , and GEORGE , and BRUNSWICK Crowd the verse , Rend with tremendous found ...
... muft write , write CAESAR'S Praife , b You'll gain at least a Knighthood , or the Bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce , With ARMS , and GEORGE , and BRUNSWICK Crowd the verse , Rend with tremendous found ...
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... muft own , I live among the Great , No Pimp of pleasure , and no Spy of state , 131 With eyes that pry not , tongue that ne'er repeats , 135 Fond to spread ftiendships , but to cover heats ; To help who want , to forward who excel ...
... muft own , I live among the Great , No Pimp of pleasure , and no Spy of state , 131 With eyes that pry not , tongue that ne'er repeats , 135 Fond to spread ftiendships , but to cover heats ; To help who want , to forward who excel ...
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... muft fure do well . w Adieu - if this advice appear the worst , E'en take the Counsel which I gave you first : Or better precepts if you can impart , Why do , I'll follow them with all my heart . 131 THE FIRST EPIST LE OF THE SECOND ...
... muft fure do well . w Adieu - if this advice appear the worst , E'en take the Counsel which I gave you first : Or better precepts if you can impart , Why do , I'll follow them with all my heart . 131 THE FIRST EPIST LE OF THE SECOND ...
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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...