The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3J. Murray, 1881 - Poets, English |
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... Lord Hervey - Lady Deloraine - Judge Page . Pope's Advertisement . THE SECOND SATIRE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE . - To Mr. BETHEL Remarks of Warton - Roscoe . - Mr . Croker's opinion as to the date of the Composition - General Remarks ...
... Lord Hervey - Lady Deloraine - Judge Page . Pope's Advertisement . THE SECOND SATIRE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE . - To Mr. BETHEL Remarks of Warton - Roscoe . - Mr . Croker's opinion as to the date of the Composition - General Remarks ...
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... Lord Hervey - Lord Fanny , Sporus , Paris , Adonis , and Narcissus ; and some of these he changes for each other in different versions of the same passage , partly no doubt for the purpose of piquing curiosity , and partly to elude ...
... Lord Hervey - Lord Fanny , Sporus , Paris , Adonis , and Narcissus ; and some of these he changes for each other in different versions of the same passage , partly no doubt for the purpose of piquing curiosity , and partly to elude ...
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... Lord Hervey's Memoirs , and the Marchmont Papers , helps to explain the sense of certain passages in the Satires , which have been passed over or despaired of by the commentators . Notable instances of difficulties overcome by memory ...
... Lord Hervey's Memoirs , and the Marchmont Papers , helps to explain the sense of certain passages in the Satires , which have been passed over or despaired of by the commentators . Notable instances of difficulties overcome by memory ...
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... Lord Oxford appeared in the same year , that is to say before he had come under Bolingbroke's influence ; while the Epistle to Arbuthnot , as will be seen hereafter , was designed as an answer to the attack made on him by Lord Hervey ...
... Lord Oxford appeared in the same year , that is to say before he had come under Bolingbroke's influence ; while the Epistle to Arbuthnot , as will be seen hereafter , was designed as an answer to the attack made on him by Lord Hervey ...
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... Lord Hervey , the subject of which is his own reported death . The Queen is represented in conversation with her ... Lord Hervey's Memoirs , vol . ii . , p . 171 . 8 Closely copied from Boileau : Un esprit né chagrin plait par son ...
... Lord Hervey , the subject of which is his own reported death . The Queen is represented in conversation with her ... Lord Hervey's Memoirs , vol . ii . , p . 171 . 8 Closely copied from Boileau : Un esprit né chagrin plait par son ...
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Page 381 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Page 252 - View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 533 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Page 118 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Page 150 - 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 472 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field? Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions and his own? Names which I long have...
Page 530 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 239 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song...
Page 176 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 91 - Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most women have no characters at all." Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguished by black, brown, or fair.