The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... corrupt , but man can ne'er destroy . Like mighty rivers , with resistless force The passions rage , obstructed in their course ; Swell to new heights , forbidden paths explore , And drown those virtues which they fed before . 60 And ...
... corrupt , but man can ne'er destroy . Like mighty rivers , with resistless force The passions rage , obstructed in their course ; Swell to new heights , forbidden paths explore , And drown those virtues which they fed before . 60 And ...
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... Corruption by her vassals crown'd , 125 Derides fall'n Justice prostrate on the ground , Swift to redress an injured people's groan , Bold SATIRE shakes the tyrant on her throne ; Powerful as Death , defies the sordid train , And slaves ...
... Corruption by her vassals crown'd , 125 Derides fall'n Justice prostrate on the ground , Swift to redress an injured people's groan , Bold SATIRE shakes the tyrant on her throne ; Powerful as Death , defies the sordid train , And slaves ...
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... Corruption , dark and deep , like fate , Saps the foundation of a sinking state ; When giant - vice and irreligion rise , 300 305 On mountain'd falsehoods to invade the skies : Then warmer numbers glow thro ' SATIRE's page , And all her ...
... Corruption , dark and deep , like fate , Saps the foundation of a sinking state ; When giant - vice and irreligion rise , 300 305 On mountain'd falsehoods to invade the skies : Then warmer numbers glow thro ' SATIRE's page , And all her ...
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... corruption with a calm disdain . 380 385 More ardent eloquence , and boundless rage , Inflame bold JUVENAL'S exalted page ; His mighty numbers awed corrupted Rome , And swept audacious Greatness to its doom ; 390 The headlong torrent ...
... corruption with a calm disdain . 380 385 More ardent eloquence , and boundless rage , Inflame bold JUVENAL'S exalted page ; His mighty numbers awed corrupted Rome , And swept audacious Greatness to its doom ; 390 The headlong torrent ...
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... corruption's shrine ; 520 525 Urge , urge thy power , the black attempt confound , And dash the smoking censer to the ground . Thus awed to fear , instructed bards may see , That guilt is doomed to sink in infamy . 530 SATIRES . In the ...
... corruption's shrine ; 520 525 Urge , urge thy power , the black attempt confound , And dash the smoking censer to the ground . Thus awed to fear , instructed bards may see , That guilt is doomed to sink in infamy . 530 SATIRES . In the ...
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Page 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 82 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Page 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Page 36 - 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!
Page 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Page 414 - ... male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Page 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Page 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Page 63 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike, Alike...