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I had no thoughts of publishing it , till it pleased some Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court ] to attack , in a very ...
I had no thoughts of publishing it , till it pleased some Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court ] to attack , in a very ...
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This defign he communicated to his excellent Friend Dr. ARBUTHNOT , who , although as a Man of Wit and Learning he might not have been difpleased to see their common injuries revenged on this pernicious Tribe ; yet , as our Author's ...
This defign he communicated to his excellent Friend Dr. ARBUTHNOT , who , although as a Man of Wit and Learning he might not have been difpleased to see their common injuries revenged on this pernicious Tribe ; yet , as our Author's ...
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But though he offended in becoming an Author , he offended in nothing else . For his early verfes were perfectly innocent and harmless , Like gentle Fanny's was my flowing theme , A painted miftrefs , or a purling ftream .
But though he offended in becoming an Author , he offended in nothing else . For his early verfes were perfectly innocent and harmless , Like gentle Fanny's was my flowing theme , A painted miftrefs , or a purling ftream .
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This naturally leads him to complain of his Friends , when they confider him in no other view than that of an Author : as if he had neither the fame right to the enjoyments of life , the fame concern for his highest interefts , or the ...
This naturally leads him to complain of his Friends , when they confider him in no other view than that of an Author : as if he had neither the fame right to the enjoyments of life , the fame concern for his highest interefts , or the ...
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A fecret , in elegant expreffion , which our Author often practifed . VER . 13. Mint . ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they were there fuffered to afford one another , from the ...
A fecret , in elegant expreffion , which our Author often practifed . VER . 13. Mint . ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they were there fuffered to afford one another , from the ...
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Page 9 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 24 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 16 - Fed with soft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song. His library, where busts of poets dead...
Page 275 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 8 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 29 - Yet why? that father held it for a rule, It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore! Unspotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in song.
Page 43 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
Page 12 - It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud,
Page 31 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 9 - Lintot, dull rogue! will think your price too much." "Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.
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| Title | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c Volume 4 of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Oct 22, 2005 |
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