Mr. Pope, His Life and Times, Volume 2Hutchinson & Company, 1909 - 6 pages |
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Page 374
... Court . " You must excuse me for observing what I think any defect in you : you grow too indolent , and give up things too easily ; which would be other- wise when you found and felt yourself your own : spirits would come in as ill ...
... Court . " You must excuse me for observing what I think any defect in you : you grow too indolent , and give up things too easily ; which would be other- wise when you found and felt yourself your own : spirits would come in as ill ...
Page 376
... Court , and out of his jurisdiction , where you will be teased with no lectures of gravity and morality , and where you will have no other trouble than to get into the mercer's books , and take up a hundred pounds of your capital for ...
... Court , and out of his jurisdiction , where you will be teased with no lectures of gravity and morality , and where you will have no other trouble than to get into the mercer's books , and take up a hundred pounds of your capital for ...
Page 378
... Court and the Govern- Although the subscription for the printed version was very large , and although he received the protection and support of the Duchess of Queens- berry , Gay took his disappointment bitterly to 1 The duchess was ...
... Court and the Govern- Although the subscription for the printed version was very large , and although he received the protection and support of the Duchess of Queens- berry , Gay took his disappointment bitterly to 1 The duchess was ...
Page 379
... Court , where she never came for diversion , but to bestow a civility upon the king and queen ; she hopes by so unprecedented an order as this that the king will see so few as he wishes at his Court , particularly such as dare to think ...
... Court , where she never came for diversion , but to bestow a civility upon the king and queen ; she hopes by so unprecedented an order as this that the king will see so few as he wishes at his Court , particularly such as dare to think ...
Page 380
... Court ; even any honest man is a better . " Thanks to the devoted attention of Arbuthnot , Gay pulled through , and Mrs. Pope still lingered on , though for some time her death was daily ex- pected . Congreve , a friend of long standing ...
... Court ; even any honest man is a better . " Thanks to the devoted attention of Arbuthnot , Gay pulled through , and Mrs. Pope still lingered on , though for some time her death was daily ex- pected . Congreve , a friend of long standing ...
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Page 474 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 656 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 492 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 480 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 443 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Page 513 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 656 - Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 481 - Come then my Friend! my genius! come along; Oh, master of the poet, and the song! And while the muse now stoops, or now ascends, To man's low passions, or their glorious ends Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise; Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.
Page 473 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 444 - He pledged it to the knight ; the knight had wit, So kept the diamond, and the rogue was bit.