The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 - English literature |
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... grace , And to be grave , exeeeds all Pow'er of face . I fit with fad civility , I read With honeft anguish , and an aching head ; And drop at laft , but in unwilling cars , 35 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years ...
... grace , And to be grave , exeeeds all Pow'er of face . I fit with fad civility , I read With honeft anguish , and an aching head ; And drop at laft , but in unwilling cars , 35 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years ...
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... Grace . Mr. P. never received any prefent , farther than the fubfcription for Homer , from him , or from any great man whatsoever . VER . 378. Let Budgel ] Budgel , in a weekly pamphlet called the Bee , bestowed much abuse on him , in ...
... Grace . Mr. P. never received any prefent , farther than the fubfcription for Homer , from him , or from any great man whatsoever . VER . 378. Let Budgel ] Budgel , in a weekly pamphlet called the Bee , bestowed much abuse on him , in ...
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... grace and fplendor on original wit . Befides , he deemed it more modeft to give the name of Imitati- ons to his Satires , than , like Defpreaux , to give the name of Satires to Imitations . VOL . IV . D SATIRA PRIMA . HORATIUS ...
... grace and fplendor on original wit . Befides , he deemed it more modeft to give the name of Imitati- ons to his Satires , than , like Defpreaux , to give the name of Satires to Imitations . VOL . IV . D SATIRA PRIMA . HORATIUS ...
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... most hu mourous part of the answer . Peream male , fi non Optimum erat , and has loft the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of verum nequeo dormire , T. f Ter un & ti Tranfnanto Tiberim , fomno D 2 Sat. I 35 OF HORA CEI.
... most hu mourous part of the answer . Peream male , fi non Optimum erat , and has loft the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of verum nequeo dormire , T. f Ter un & ti Tranfnanto Tiberim , fomno D 2 Sat. I 35 OF HORA CEI.
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... grace to elegance of expreffion .--- But what follows is as much above the Original , as this falls fhort of it . VER 23. What ? like Sir Richard , & c . ] Mr. Molyneux , a great Mathematician and Philosopher , had a high opinion of Sir ...
... grace to elegance of expreffion .--- But what follows is as much above the Original , as this falls fhort of it . VER 23. What ? like Sir Richard , & c . ] Mr. Molyneux , a great Mathematician and Philosopher , had a high opinion of Sir ...
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Page 21 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 17 - 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, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 49 - 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 45 - Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be Page.
Page 17 - And those they left me; for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and 'tell it on his tomb: Of all thy blameless...
Page 27 - 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 ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 182 - Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate towards them breeds pity towards the rest.
Page 6 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Page 24 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...