The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Shirley, a standish and two pens. A fragment of an unpublished satire of Pope intitled One thousand seven hundred and forty. The plan of an epic poem, to have been written in blank verse, and intitled Brutus. Preface to Homer's Iliad. Postscript to the OdysseyJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... Kings , Queens , and Minifiers of State happen to be men- tioned , his Friend takes the alarm , and begs him to forbear ; advises him to stick to his subject , and to be eafy under fo com . mon a calamity . To make fo light of his ...
... Kings , Queens , and Minifiers of State happen to be men- tioned , his Friend takes the alarm , and begs him to forbear ; advises him to stick to his subject , and to be eafy under fo com . mon a calamity . To make fo light of his ...
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... Bays , when the two Kings of Brentford came from the clouds again into the throne , inftead of what the part directed me to fay , made me ufe these words , viz . " Now All my demurs but double his attacks ; At last 16 PROLOGUE.
... Bays , when the two Kings of Brentford came from the clouds again into the throne , inftead of what the part directed me to fay , made me ufe these words , viz . " Now All my demurs but double his attacks ; At last 16 PROLOGUE.
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... King , ) 65 70 His tt NOTES . " Now , Sir , this revolution , I had fome thoughts of introducing " by a quite different contrivance ; but my defign taking air , fome " of your sharp wits , I found , had made ufe of it before me ...
... King , ) 65 70 His tt NOTES . " Now , Sir , this revolution , I had fome thoughts of introducing " by a quite different contrivance ; but my defign taking air , fome " of your sharp wits , I found , had made ufe of it before me ...
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... Kings ; Keep close to Ears , and those let affes prick , ' Tis nothing - P . Nothing ? if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the fecret pass , That fecret to each fool , that he's an Afs : 75 80 The truth once told ( and ...
... Kings ; Keep close to Ears , and those let affes prick , ' Tis nothing - P . Nothing ? if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the fecret pass , That fecret to each fool , that he's an Afs : 75 80 The truth once told ( and ...
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... and undifputed , and I believe , if he had a mind to be chofen King , he would hardly be refused . " Why fhould he be jealous and fplenetic , only , when Pope was concerned ? Like Cato , give his little Senate laws , And 38 PROLOGUE.
... and undifputed , and I believe , if he had a mind to be chofen King , he would hardly be refused . " Why fhould he be jealous and fplenetic , only , when Pope was concerned ? Like Cato , give his little Senate laws , And 38 PROLOGUE.
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Page 11 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay '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.
Page 49 - 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 12 - 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 217 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
Page 311 - 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. Come, come, at all I laugh he laughs, no doubt; The only difference is, I dare laugh out.
Page 354 - Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours.
Page 21 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 93 - There my Retreat, the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of War, and Statesmen out of Place. There ST JOHN mingles with my friendly Bowl, The Feast of Reason, and the Flow of Soul. And HE, whose Lightning pierc'd th...
Page 219 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Page 9 - 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...