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, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 4A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 - English poetry |
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... fay fomething of myself , and my own laziness to undertake fo aukward a task , I thought it the shortest way to put the last hand to this Epistle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am most defirous to please ...
... fay fomething of myself , and my own laziness to undertake fo aukward a task , I thought it the shortest way to put the last hand to this Epistle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am most defirous to please ...
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... fays he ( in a pleasant Simile addressed to his Friend's profeffion ) " Of all mad creatures , if the learn'd are right , " It is the flaver kills , and not the bite . " And how abject and exceffive the flattery of these creatures was ...
... fays he ( in a pleasant Simile addressed to his Friend's profeffion ) " Of all mad creatures , if the learn'd are right , " It is the flaver kills , and not the bite . " And how abject and exceffive the flattery of these creatures was ...
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... fay I'm fick , I'm dead . The Dog - ftar rages ! nay , tis paft a doubt , All Bedlam , or Parnaffus , is let out : Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , They rave , recite , and madden round the land . NOTES . S VER . 1. Shut ...
... fay I'm fick , I'm dead . The Dog - ftar rages ! nay , tis paft a doubt , All Bedlam , or Parnaffus , is let out : Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , They rave , recite , and madden round the land . NOTES . S VER . 1. Shut ...
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... fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a sorer case , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? A. Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang'rous things . 75 80 I'd never name Queens , Minifters ...
... fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a sorer case , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? A. Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang'rous things . 75 80 I'd never name Queens , Minifters ...
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... fay , that he began to write verfes further back than he could remember . When he was eight years old , Ogilby's Homer fell in his way , and delighted him extremely ; it was followed by Sandys ' Ovid ; and the raptures these then gave ...
... fay , that he began to write verfes further back than he could remember . When he was eight years old , Ogilby's Homer fell in his way , and delighted him extremely ; it was followed by Sandys ' Ovid ; and the raptures these then gave ...
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Page 11 - 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? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Page 39 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 30 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
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Page 13 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.