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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... tell me so ; but I Know better still than they , both what to try , And what my prudent care must to myself deny . " Sat. 2 . The necessity of Temperance was also no less incumbent upon him than on Pope : " E le vivande condiriami il ...
... tell me so ; but I Know better still than they , both what to try , And what my prudent care must to myself deny . " Sat. 2 . The necessity of Temperance was also no less incumbent upon him than on Pope : " E le vivande condiriami il ...
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... tell his doctor that he had already taken his party , and determined of his remedy . But using a preamble , and ... tells him the ap- plication of his simile at once : " Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the secret pass , " & c . But ...
... tell his doctor that he had already taken his party , and determined of his remedy . But using a preamble , and ... tells him the ap- plication of his simile at once : " Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the secret pass , " & c . But ...
Page 34
... tells us , two enraged and hungry critics fell upon him without any provocation . But this might have been borne , as the common lot of distinction . But it was his peculiar ill- fortune to create a jealousy in one , whom , not only ...
... tells us , two enraged and hungry critics fell upon him without any provocation . But this might have been borne , as the common lot of distinction . But it was his peculiar ill- fortune to create a jealousy in one , whom , not only ...
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... do something in his sempstress ' praise- Ver . 29. in the first Ed . Dear Doctor , tell me , is not this a curse ? Say , is their anger , or their friendship worse ? • Seized and tied down to judge , how wretched THE SATIRES . 41.
... do something in his sempstress ' praise- Ver . 29. in the first Ed . Dear Doctor , tell me , is not this a curse ? Say , is their anger , or their friendship worse ? • Seized and tied down to judge , how wretched THE SATIRES . 41.
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... tells us he was fat and sleek , " præcanum , solibus aptum , " prone to anger , but soon ap- peased . And again , how pleasing the detail he gives of his way of life , the descriptions of his mule , his dinner , his supper , his fur ...
... tells us he was fat and sleek , " præcanum , solibus aptum , " prone to anger , but soon ap- peased . And again , how pleasing the detail he gives of his way of life , the descriptions of his mule , his dinner , his supper , his fur ...
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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...