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I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free ufe of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I fhall have this advantage , and honour ...
I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free ufe of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I fhall have this advantage , and honour ...
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To this he answers , by lamenting the natural bent of his difpofition , which , from his very birth , had drawn him so strongly towards Poetry , as if it were in execution of fome fecret decree of Heaven for crimes unknown .
To this he answers , by lamenting the natural bent of his difpofition , which , from his very birth , had drawn him so strongly towards Poetry , as if it were in execution of fome fecret decree of Heaven for crimes unknown .
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Queen ] The story is told , by fome , of his Barber , but by Chaucer of his Queen . See Wife of Bath's Tale in Dryden's Fables . P. VER . 80. That fecret to each fool , that he's an Afs : ] i . e . that his ears ( his marks of folly ) ...
Queen ] The story is told , by fome , of his Barber , but by Chaucer of his Queen . See Wife of Bath's Tale in Dryden's Fables . P. VER . 80. That fecret to each fool , that he's an Afs : ] i . e . that his ears ( his marks of folly ) ...
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For fong , for filence fome expect a bribe ; And other roar aloud , " Subscribe , subscribe . " Time , praise , or money , is the least they crave ; Yet each declares the other fool or knave . 120 NOTES . VER . 118.
For fong , for filence fome expect a bribe ; And other roar aloud , " Subscribe , subscribe . " Time , praise , or money , is the least they crave ; Yet each declares the other fool or knave . 120 NOTES . VER . 118.
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150 Did fome more fober Critic come abroad ; If wrong , I fmil'd ; if right , I kifs'd the rod . Pains , reading , study , are their juft pretence , And all they want is fpirit , tafte , and fenfe . 160 Comma's and points they fet ...
150 Did fome more fober Critic come abroad ; If wrong , I fmil'd ; if right , I kifs'd the rod . Pains , reading , study , are their juft pretence , And all they want is fpirit , tafte , and fenfe . 160 Comma's and points they fet ...
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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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