The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... language are so interesting , and contain such marks of Christian resigna- tion and calmness of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inserted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He frequently ...
... language are so interesting , and contain such marks of Christian resigna- tion and calmness of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inserted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He frequently ...
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... language : and I mention this my opinion more freely , be- cause I perceive many masters use a contrary method . " Dial . iv . Ver . 13. Mint ] A place to which insolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they ...
... language : and I mention this my opinion more freely , be- cause I perceive many masters use a contrary method . " Dial . iv . Ver . 13. Mint ] A place to which insolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they ...
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... language , over- ruled me . " These are the very words which I transcribed at the time . Ver . 163. These ribalds , ] How deservedly this title is given to the genius of PHILOLOGY , may be seen by a short account of the manners of the ...
... language , over- ruled me . " These are the very words which I transcribed at the time . Ver . 163. These ribalds , ] How deservedly this title is given to the genius of PHILOLOGY , may be seen by a short account of the manners of the ...
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... language in the West ; insomuch , that Hermolaus Bar- barus , a passionate admirer of it , and a noted critic , used to boast , that he had invoked and raised the Devil , and puzzled him into the bargain , about the meaning of the ...
... language in the West ; insomuch , that Hermolaus Bar- barus , a passionate admirer of it , and a noted critic , used to boast , that he had invoked and raised the Devil , and puzzled him into the bargain , about the meaning of the ...
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... language , and numbers , under their proper heads . But the growing splendour of his own works so eclipsed the faint efforts of this opposition , that he trusted to its own weakness and malignity for the justice due unto it . About this ...
... language , and numbers , under their proper heads . But the growing splendour of his own works so eclipsed the faint efforts of this opposition , that he trusted to its own weakness and malignity for the justice due unto it . About this ...
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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?