The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Volume 3C. Cooke, 1796 |
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... THE DUNCIAD . BY ALEXANDER POPE . FROM THE TEXT OF DR . WARBURTON . WITH ADVERTISEMENTS , PREFACES , LETTERS , INDEX OF PERSONS , INDEX OF MATTERS , PARALLELS , & c . & c . & c . A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . Occafioned by the first.
... THE DUNCIAD . BY ALEXANDER POPE . FROM THE TEXT OF DR . WARBURTON . WITH ADVERTISEMENTS , PREFACES , LETTERS , INDEX OF PERSONS , INDEX OF MATTERS , PARALLELS , & c . & c . & c . A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . Occafioned by the first.
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With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements Alexander Pope. A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . Occafioned by the first correct Edition of IT THE DUNCIAD ... Letter to the Publifher, occafioned by the firft correct Edition of the Dunciad,
With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements Alexander Pope. A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . Occafioned by the first correct Edition of IT THE DUNCIAD ... Letter to the Publifher, occafioned by the firft correct Edition of the Dunciad,
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... expofing to the world the private misfortunes of families , abufed all , even to women , and whofe proftituted papers ( for one or other other party in the unhappy divifions of their country ) A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . 71.
... expofing to the world the private misfortunes of families , abufed all , even to women , and whofe proftituted papers ( for one or other other party in the unhappy divifions of their country ) A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . 71.
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... of domeftics within , moft wrongfully chaftifed , if the meannefs of offenders indemnified them from Which we have done in a Lift hereto fubjoined from punishment ? On the contrary , obfcurity renders them 2 A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER .
... of domeftics within , moft wrongfully chaftifed , if the meannefs of offenders indemnified them from Which we have done in a Lift hereto fubjoined from punishment ? On the contrary , obfcurity renders them 2 A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER .
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... characters were too facred for fatire ; and the Public objecting on the other , that they are too mean even for ridicule ? VOL . III . But 5 G But whether bread or fame be their end , it A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . 73.
... characters were too facred for fatire ; and the Public objecting on the other , that they are too mean even for ridicule ? VOL . III . But 5 G But whether bread or fame be their end , it A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER . 73.
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Page 8 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 35 - In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw, Entangle Justice in her net of law, And right, too rigid, harden into wrong; Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong.
Page 36 - Th' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all Nature's laws, T" invert the world, and counterwork its cause ? Force first made conquest, and that conquest law...
Page 30 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place, Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Page 33 - Who calls the council, states the certain day ? Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
Page 27 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 25 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 27 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Page 65 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Page 190 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.