The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral essays, satires, etcC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... fhould be oblig❜d to thee ? At Senate , and at Bar , how welcome would'ft thou be à XI . Yet fpeech ev❜n there , fubmiffively withdraws , From rights of fubjects , and the poor man's cause : Then pompous Silence reigns , and ftills ...
... fhould be oblig❜d to thee ? At Senate , and at Bar , how welcome would'ft thou be à XI . Yet fpeech ev❜n there , fubmiffively withdraws , From rights of fubjects , and the poor man's cause : Then pompous Silence reigns , and ftills ...
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... fhould vainly quit Thy facred paths , to run the maze of wit ; 525 If her apoftate heart should e'er incline To offer incenfe at Corruption's fhrine ; Urge , urge thy pow'r , the black attempt confound , And dash the fmoaking Cenfer to ...
... fhould vainly quit Thy facred paths , to run the maze of wit ; 525 If her apoftate heart should e'er incline To offer incenfe at Corruption's fhrine ; Urge , urge thy pow'r , the black attempt confound , And dash the fmoaking Cenfer to ...
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... fhould die as Cæfar bleed . In the firft Folio and Quarto , What blifs above he gives not thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy blifs below . Where slaves once more their native land behold , No 45 EP . I. ESSAY ΟΝ ΜΑΝ .
... fhould die as Cæfar bleed . In the firft Folio and Quarto , What blifs above he gives not thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy blifs below . Where slaves once more their native land behold , No 45 EP . I. ESSAY ΟΝ ΜΑΝ .
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... fhould be chiefly delivered in feigned Examples . The FOURTH and last Book was to pursue the sub- ject of the Fourth Epistle of the First , and treats of Ethics , or practical Morality ; and would have con- fifted of many members ; of ...
... fhould be chiefly delivered in feigned Examples . The FOURTH and last Book was to pursue the sub- ject of the Fourth Epistle of the First , and treats of Ethics , or practical Morality ; and would have con- fifted of many members ; of ...
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... fhould call him Fool . 205 VER . 200. A Fool , with more of Wit ] Folly , joined with much Wit , produces that behaviour which we call Abfurdity ; and this abfurdity the poet has here admirably described in thefe words , Too rafh for ...
... fhould call him Fool . 205 VER . 200. A Fool , with more of Wit ] Folly , joined with much Wit , produces that behaviour which we call Abfurdity ; and this abfurdity the poet has here admirably described in thefe words , Too rafh for ...
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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...