The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral essays, satires, etcC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... Virtue , is generally perverted , ver . 4 E. And thus becomes the Occafion of the greatest Follies , Vices , and Miferies , ver . 61. It is the Work of Satire to rectify this Passion , to reduce it to its proper Channel , and to convert ...
... Virtue , is generally perverted , ver . 4 E. And thus becomes the Occafion of the greatest Follies , Vices , and Miferies , ver . 61. It is the Work of Satire to rectify this Passion , to reduce it to its proper Channel , and to convert ...
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... Virtue and each Grace unite , And tafte the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright affemblage treafur'd there ; 20 You trace the chain that links his deep defign , And pour new luftre ...
... Virtue and each Grace unite , And tafte the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright affemblage treafur'd there ; 20 You trace the chain that links his deep defign , And pour new luftre ...
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... Virtues which they fea before . 60 1 And fure , the deadlieft Foe to Virtue's flame 20 Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... Virtues which they fea before . 60 1 And fure , the deadlieft Foe to Virtue's flame 20 Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... Virtue , but his Pride . Hence chafte Lucretia's Innocence betray'd Fell by that Honour which was meant its aid . Thus Virtue finks beneath unnumber'd woes , When Paffions , born her friends , revolt her foes . IMITATIONS . VER . 8o ...
... Virtue , but his Pride . Hence chafte Lucretia's Innocence betray'd Fell by that Honour which was meant its aid . Thus Virtue finks beneath unnumber'd woes , When Paffions , born her friends , revolt her foes . IMITATIONS . VER . 8o ...
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... Virtue's awful head . Nor boafts the Muse a vain imagin'd Pow'r , Tho ' oft fhe mourn thofe ills fhe cannot cure . The Worthy court her , and the Worthless fear ; Who fhun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the Vain ...
... Virtue's awful head . Nor boafts the Muse a vain imagin'd Pow'r , Tho ' oft fhe mourn thofe ills fhe cannot cure . The Worthy court her , and the Worthless fear ; Who fhun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the Vain ...
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Balaam becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft Cæfar caufe cauſe Characters Court Dunciad eaſe Epiftle ev'n ev'ry expreffion faid fame fatire fave feems fenfe ferve feven fhall fhew fhould fince fing firft firſt fmile Folly fome fool foul fpirit ftate ftill ftrong fubject fuch fuperior fure Genius grace heart Heav'n himſelf honour Horace imitation juft juſt King knave laft laſt Laws lefs Lord mankind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt Nature ne'er never NOTE numbers nunc o'er obferve Paffion perfon Pindar pleaſe pleaſure Poet pow'r praiſe pride profe purpoſe Pythagorea quae quid quod racter Reafon reft rife rifu ruling Angels Sappho Satire Senfe ſhall ſhe ſtate ſtill tafte thee thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro Truth uſe VARIATION verfe Vice Virtue whofe whoſe wife worfe
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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...