The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Volume 3C. Cooke, 1796 |
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... never give Himself a dinner , makes an actor live : The thief condemn'd , in law already dead , So prompts and faves a rogue who cannot read . SATIRE II . SIR , tho ' ( I thank God for it ) I do hate Perfectly all this Town , yet ...
... never give Himself a dinner , makes an actor live : The thief condemn'd , in law already dead , So prompts and faves a rogue who cannot read . SATIRE II . SIR , tho ' ( I thank God for it ) I do hate Perfectly all this Town , yet ...
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... never known , If Peter deigns to help you to your own : What thanks , what praife , if Peter but fupplies ! And what a folemn face if he denies ! Grave , as when pris'ners fhake the head , and fwear ' Twas only furetyfhip that brought ...
... never known , If Peter deigns to help you to your own : What thanks , what praife , if Peter but fupplies ! And what a folemn face if he denies ! Grave , as when pris'ners fhake the head , and fwear ' Twas only furetyfhip that brought ...
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... never fir'd , Nor the vain itch t ' admire or be admir'd ; I hop'd for no commiffion from his Grace ; I bought no benefice , I begg'd no place ; Had no new verfes nor new fuit to fhow , Yet went to Court ! -the devil would have it fo ...
... never fir'd , Nor the vain itch t ' admire or be admir'd ; I hop'd for no commiffion from his Grace ; I bought no benefice , I begg'd no place ; Had no new verfes nor new fuit to fhow , Yet went to Court ! -the devil would have it fo ...
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... never feel the rage or never own , What happier natures fhrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . 1 Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree : The rogue and fool by ...
... never feel the rage or never own , What happier natures fhrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . 1 Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree : The rogue and fool by ...
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... never to o'ershoot , but just to hit , While ftill too wide or fhort is human wit ; Sure by quick Nature happiness to gain , Which heavier reafon labours at in vain . This , too , ferves always ; reafon never long ; One must go right ...
... never to o'ershoot , but just to hit , While ftill too wide or fhort is human wit ; Sure by quick Nature happiness to gain , Which heavier reafon labours at in vain . This , too , ferves always ; reafon never long ; One must go right ...
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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.