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... whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the caufe : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . 15 20 25 . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world ...
... whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the caufe : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . 15 20 25 . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world ...
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... whofe account the Author charges the publication of his firft pieces : perfons , with whom he was converfant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for fuch acquaintance . The catalogue might be made yet more ...
... whofe account the Author charges the publication of his firft pieces : perfons , with whom he was converfant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for fuch acquaintance . The catalogue might be made yet more ...
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... whofe Wit has lately licked up , and enrolled fuch a quantity of these Infects , and of tribes fo grotesque and various , as would have puzzled Reaumur to give names to . Two or three of them it may not be amifs to preferve and keep ...
... whofe Wit has lately licked up , and enrolled fuch a quantity of these Infects , and of tribes fo grotesque and various , as would have puzzled Reaumur to give names to . Two or three of them it may not be amifs to preferve and keep ...
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... man's . Yet both keep going on , and blun- dering round about their fubject , as benighted people are wont to do , who seek for an entrance which they cannot find . Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whofe 2 16 PROLOGUE.
... man's . Yet both keep going on , and blun- dering round about their fubject , as benighted people are wont to do , who seek for an entrance which they cannot find . Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whofe 2 16 PROLOGUE.
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Alexander Pope. Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whofe fires True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should fuch a man , too ...
Alexander Pope. Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whofe fires True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should fuch a man , too ...
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Page 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Page 21 - 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, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 51 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Page 234 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 47 - Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage ; Hard words or hanging, if your judge be Page ; From furious Sappho scarce a milder fate, Px'd by her love, or libell'd by her hate.
Page 17 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Page 10 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Page 21 - Heavens! was I born for nothing but to write? Has life no joys for me? or (to be grave) Have I no friend to serve, no soul to save? "I found him close with Swift — Indeed? no doubt (Cries prating Balbus) something will come out.