The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... King ) , 65 70 VARIATIONS . Ver . 60 in the former Ed . Cibber and I are , luckily , no friends . NOTES . Ver . 69. ' Tis sung , when Midas ' ] The abruptness with which this story from Persius is introduced , occasions an obscurity in ...
... King ) , 65 70 VARIATIONS . Ver . 60 in the former Ed . Cibber and I are , luckily , no friends . NOTES . Ver . 69. ' Tis sung , when Midas ' ] The abruptness with which this story from Persius is introduced , occasions an obscurity in ...
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... Kings ; 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 an Ass : The truth once told ( and ...
... Kings ; 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 an Ass : The truth once told ( and ...
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... king immediately conceived a violent indigna- tion , because a poet should dare to busy himself with politics . Racine had the weakness to take this anger so much to heart , that it brought on a low fever which hastened his death . The ...
... king immediately conceived a violent indigna- tion , because a poet should dare to busy himself with politics . Racine had the weakness to take this anger so much to heart , that it brought on a low fever which hastened his death . The ...
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... Kings to Gods , Leave to Court - sermons , and to Birth - day Odes . On themes like these , superior far to thine , Let laurell'd Cibber , and great Arnal shine . P. Why write at all ? A. Yes , silence if you keep , The Town , the Court ...
... Kings to Gods , Leave to Court - sermons , and to Birth - day Odes . On themes like these , superior far to thine , Let laurell'd Cibber , and great Arnal shine . P. Why write at all ? A. Yes , silence if you keep , The Town , the Court ...
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... Kings , he held a shame , And thought a Lie in verse or prose the same . That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long , But stoop'd to Truth , and moraliz'd his song : 335 340 NOTES . Ver . 340. That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long ...
... Kings , he held a shame , And thought a Lie in verse or prose the same . That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long , But stoop'd to Truth , and moraliz'd his song : 335 340 NOTES . Ver . 340. That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long ...
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Page 26 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 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 26 - 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...
Page 388 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 321 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Page 69 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. 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 31 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 39 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 47 - 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 awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 28 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?