The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... Kings , Queens , and Ministers of State , his Friend takes the alarm , begs him to forbear , to stick to his subject , and to be easy under so common a calamity . To make fo light of his disafter provokes the Poet : he breaks the thread ...
... Kings , Queens , and Ministers of State , his Friend takes the alarm , begs him to forbear , to stick to his subject , and to be easy under so common a calamity . To make fo light of his disafter provokes the Poet : he breaks the thread ...
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... King ) VARIATIONS . VER . 60. in the former Edd . Cibber and I are luckily no friends . NOTES . 70 VER . 69. ' Tis sung , when Midas ' & c . ] The Poet mean sung by Perfius ; and the words alluded to are , Vidi , vidi ipse , Libelle ...
... King ) VARIATIONS . VER . 60. in the former Edd . Cibber and I are luckily no friends . NOTES . 70 VER . 69. ' Tis sung , when Midas ' & c . ] The Poet mean sung by Perfius ; and the words alluded to are , Vidi , vidi ipse , Libelle ...
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... Kings ; 76 Keep close to Ears , and those let asses prick , ' Tis nothing --- P . Nothing ? if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DuNCIAD ! let the secret pass , That secret to each fool , that he's an Ass : The truth once told ( and ...
... Kings ; 76 Keep close to Ears , and those let asses prick , ' Tis nothing --- P . Nothing ? if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DuNCIAD ! let the secret pass , That secret to each fool , that he's an Ass : The truth once told ( and ...
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... Kings to Gods Leave to Court - fermons , and to birth - day Odes . On themes like these , superior far to thine , Let laurell'd Cibber , and great Arnal shine . Why write at all ? -A . Yes , filence if you keep , The Town , the Court ...
... Kings to Gods Leave to Court - fermons , and to birth - day Odes . On themes like these , superior far to thine , Let laurell'd Cibber , and great Arnal shine . Why write at all ? -A . Yes , filence if you keep , The Town , the Court ...
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... Kings , he held a shame , And thought a Lye in verse or profe the fame . , That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long , 340 But floop'd to Truth , and moraliz'd his fong : NOTES . VER . 340. That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long ...
... Kings , he held a shame , And thought a Lye in verse or profe the fame . , That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long , 340 But floop'd to Truth , and moraliz'd his fong : NOTES . VER . 340. That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long ...
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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.