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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... will be only to those I am leaft forry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a circumstance but what is true ; but I have for ( 4 ) the most part fpared their Names , B 2.
... will be only to those I am leaft forry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a circumstance but what is true ; but I have for ( 4 ) the most part fpared their Names , B 2.
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... true Poet , he breaks out into a paffionate vow for a continuance of the full Liberty attendant on it . And to fhew how well he deferves it , and how fafely he might be trusted with it , he concludes his wish with a de- fcription of his ...
... true Poet , he breaks out into a paffionate vow for a continuance of the full Liberty attendant on it . And to fhew how well he deferves it , and how fafely he might be trusted with it , he concludes his wish with a de- fcription of his ...
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... true Character of descriptive pietry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces . The office of a pictorefque imagination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only ...
... true Character of descriptive pietry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces . The office of a pictorefque imagination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only ...
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... true , these were lavished upon his ene- mies for his friends he had other things in ftore . In a letter to Thuanus , fpeaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the firft a monster of ignorance ; and the other , a flave to ...
... true , these were lavished upon his ene- mies for his friends he had other things in ftore . In a letter to Thuanus , fpeaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the firft a monster of ignorance ; and the other , a flave to ...
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... Our Author always found thofe , he commended , lefs fenfile than thofe he re- proved . The reafon is plain . He gave the latter but their due ; and the other thought , they had no more . 175 A man's true merit ' tis not hard to 24 PROLOGUE.
... Our Author always found thofe , he commended , lefs fenfile than thofe he re- proved . The reafon is plain . He gave the latter but their due ; and the other thought , they had no more . 175 A man's true merit ' tis not hard to 24 PROLOGUE.
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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?
Page 12 - Three things another's modest wishes bound, My friendship, and a prologue, and ten pound. Pitholeon sends to me : ' You know his Grace, ' I want a patron ; ask him for a place.
Page 24 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 272 - If of Court life you knew the good. You would leave loneness. ' I said, 'Not alone My loneness is; but Spartan's fashion, To teach by painting drunkards, doth not last Now; Aretine's pictures have made few chaste; No more can princes...
Page 211 - This subtle Thief of life, this paltry Time, What will it leave me, if it snatch my rhyme? If ev'ry wheel of that unweary'd Mill, That turn'd ten thousand verses, now stands still?
Page 39 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 14 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Page 13 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.