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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... never - fading bays ! 510 Say , shall an artless Muse , if you inspire , Light her pale lamp at your immortal fire ? Or if , O WARBURTON ! inspired by You , The daring Muse a nobler path pursue , By You inspired , on trembling pinion ...
... never - fading bays ! 510 Say , shall an artless Muse , if you inspire , Light her pale lamp at your immortal fire ? Or if , O WARBURTON ! inspired by You , The daring Muse a nobler path pursue , By You inspired , on trembling pinion ...
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... never seen , or who have passed away long before we came into existence . But , if we are to judge of the difficulty or merit of any under- taking from the infrequency with which it has been accomplished , there are few efforts of human ...
... never seen , or who have passed away long before we came into existence . But , if we are to judge of the difficulty or merit of any under- taking from the infrequency with which it has been accomplished , there are few efforts of human ...
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... never - tired and ne- ver - tiring poetical romance of Orlando ; but this may be considered as his public and assumed character . If we wish to know him as he was in real life , we must resort to his Epistles to his friends , to which ...
... never - tired and ne- ver - tiring poetical romance of Orlando ; but this may be considered as his public and assumed character . If we wish to know him as he was in real life , we must resort to his Epistles to his friends , to which ...
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... never , even when most in fashion , set up for a patron , or a dictator amongst the wits ; but still kept retired in his usual privacy ; leaving the whole Castalian state , as he calls it , to a Mock - Maecenas , whom he next describes ...
... never , even when most in fashion , set up for a patron , or a dictator amongst the wits ; but still kept retired in his usual privacy ; leaving the whole Castalian state , as he calls it , to a Mock - Maecenas , whom he next describes ...
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... never name queens , ministers , or kings . 75 80 Keep close to ears , and those let asses prick , ' Tis nothing - P . Nothing , if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the secret pass , That secret to each fool , that he's ...
... never name queens , ministers , or kings . 75 80 Keep close to ears , and those let asses prick , ' Tis nothing - P . Nothing , if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the secret pass , That secret to each fool , that he's ...
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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...
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| Title | 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 6 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, Alexander Pope |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 24, 2007 |
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