The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1854 |
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... envy's fiercer rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Here in all tongues consenting paans ring ! In praise so just let every voice be join'd , And fill the general ...
... envy's fiercer rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Here in all tongues consenting paans ring ! In praise so just let every voice be join'd , And fill the general ...
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... Envy . Against envy , and in praise of good - nature . When severity is chiefly to be used by critics . Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment , and misguide the mind , What the weak head with strongest bias ...
... Envy . Against envy , and in praise of good - nature . When severity is chiefly to be used by critics . Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment , and misguide the mind , What the weak head with strongest bias ...
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... Envy will merit as its shade pursue , But like a shadow proves the substance true ; For envied wit , like Sol eclips'd , makes known Th ' opposing body's grossness , not its own . 8 The Rev. Luke Milbourn made a fierce attack on Dry ...
... Envy will merit as its shade pursue , But like a shadow proves the substance true ; For envied wit , like Sol eclips'd , makes known Th ' opposing body's grossness , not its own . 8 The Rev. Luke Milbourn made a fierce attack on Dry ...
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... envy which it brings : In youth alone its empty praise we boast , But soon the short - liv'd vanity is lost ; Like some fair flower the early spring supplies , That gaily blooms , but e'en in blooming dies . What is this wit , which ...
... envy which it brings : In youth alone its empty praise we boast , But soon the short - liv'd vanity is lost ; Like some fair flower the early spring supplies , That gaily blooms , but e'en in blooming dies . What is this wit , which ...
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... Envy , to which th ' ignoble mind's a slave , Is emulation in the learn'd or brave ; Nor virtue male or female can we name , But what will grow on pride or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue ...
... Envy , to which th ' ignoble mind's a slave , Is emulation in the learn'd or brave ; Nor virtue male or female can we name , But what will grow on pride or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue ...
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Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam beauty behold bless'd blessing bliss breast breath Cæsar Catiline charms Countess of Suffolk cried critics crown'd dame dear death e'en e'er ease envy EPISTLE ESSAY ON CRITICISM Eurydice Eustace Budgell eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle gold grace Gulliver's Travels happiness heart Heaven honour Houyhnhnm join'd king knave knight lady learn'd learning live lord lyre man's mankind mind mortal Muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain parterre passion Phryne pleas'd pleasure poet Pope praise pride proud rage rais'd reason rise rules sage Sappho seem'd self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sigh skies SMIL soft soul spouse squire taste thee things thou thought true Twas tyrant virtue whate'er whole wife wise youth