The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral essays, satires, etcC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... notes of Infant Woe , The short thick Sob , loud Scream , and fhriller Squall : How can ye , Mothers , vex your children fo ? $ Some play , fome eat , fome cack against the wall , And as they crouchen low , for bread and butter.call ...
... notes of Infant Woe , The short thick Sob , loud Scream , and fhriller Squall : How can ye , Mothers , vex your children fo ? $ Some play , fome eat , fome cack against the wall , And as they crouchen low , for bread and butter.call ...
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... note . The bounding steed you pompously beftride , Shares with his lord the pleafure and the pride . Is thine alone the feed that ftrews the plain ? The birds of heav'n fhall vindicate their grain . Thine the full harvest of the golden ...
... note . The bounding steed you pompously beftride , Shares with his lord the pleafure and the pride . Is thine alone the feed that ftrews the plain ? The birds of heav'n fhall vindicate their grain . Thine the full harvest of the golden ...
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... NOTE S. VER . 373. Come then , my Friend ! etc. ] This noble Apostrophe , by which the Poet concludes the Effay in an addrefs to his friend , will furnish a Critic with examples of every one of those five Spe- cies of Elocution , from ...
... NOTE S. VER . 373. Come then , my Friend ! etc. ] This noble Apostrophe , by which the Poet concludes the Effay in an addrefs to his friend , will furnish a Critic with examples of every one of those five Spe- cies of Elocution , from ...
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... note on ver . 90. of Ep . to Lord Cobham . VER . 107. Or ber , who laughs at Hell , but ( like her Grace ) — Cries , " Ab ! bow charming , if there's no fuch place ! " ] i . e . Her who affects to laugh out of fashion , and strives to ...
... note on ver . 90. of Ep . to Lord Cobham . VER . 107. Or ber , who laughs at Hell , but ( like her Grace ) — Cries , " Ab ! bow charming , if there's no fuch place ! " ] i . e . Her who affects to laugh out of fashion , and strives to ...
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... Note on ver . 78. 1 Dialogue 1738 . VER . 198. Mah'met , fervant to the late King . VER . 199. But grant , in Public , etc. ] In the former Editions , between this and the foregoing lines , a want of Connexion might be perceived ...
... Note on ver . 78. 1 Dialogue 1738 . VER . 198. Mah'met , fervant to the late King . VER . 199. But grant , in Public , etc. ] In the former Editions , between this and the foregoing lines , a want of Connexion might be perceived ...
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Page 52 - Suns run lawless thro' the sky; Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature trembles to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break— for whom? for thee? Vile worm ! — oh Madness ! Pride ! Impiety ! IX.
Page 55 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 92 - 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 fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 136 - Pleasures the sex, as children Birds, pursue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the Toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost: At last, to follies Youth could scarce defend...
Page 70 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 91 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 43 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 74 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 44 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Page 187 - 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...