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Arthur , whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world ...
Arthur , whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world ...
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These are the perfons to whofe account the Author charges the publication of his firft pieces : perfons , with whom he was converfant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for fuch acquaintance .
These are the perfons to whofe account the Author charges the publication of his firft pieces : perfons , with whom he was converfant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for fuch acquaintance .
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The liquid Amber of whofe Wit has lately licked up , and enrolled fuch a quantity of these Infects , and of tribes fo grotefque and various , as would have puzzled Reaumur to give names to .
The liquid Amber of whofe Wit has lately licked up , and enrolled fuch a quantity of these Infects , and of tribes fo grotefque and various , as would have puzzled Reaumur to give names to .
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... Means not , but blunders round about a meaning : And He , whofe fuftian's fo fublimely bad , It is not Poetry , but profe run mad : All these , my modeft Satire bad tranflate , And own'd that nine fuch Poets made a Tate .
... Means not , but blunders round about a meaning : And He , whofe fuftian's fo fublimely bad , It is not Poetry , but profe run mad : All these , my modeft Satire bad tranflate , And own'd that nine fuch Poets made a Tate .
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But were there one whofe fires , & c ] The strokes in this Character are highly finished . Atterbury fo well understood the force of them , that in one of his letters to Mr. Pope he says , " Since you now know ...
But were there one whofe fires , & c ] The strokes in this Character are highly finished . Atterbury fo well understood the force of them , that in one of his letters to Mr. Pope he says , " Since you now know ...
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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...
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| Title | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c Volume 4 of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Published by Mr. Warburton. With Occasional Notes, William Warburton |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 20, 2011 |
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