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... most part , spared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use ...
... most part , spared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use ...
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... most deteftable thing in nature , as a toad , or a beetle , become pleafing when well represented in a work of Art . But it is no lefs eminent for the beauty of the thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being thus incorporated , yet ...
... most deteftable thing in nature , as a toad , or a beetle , become pleafing when well represented in a work of Art . But it is no lefs eminent for the beauty of the thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being thus incorporated , yet ...
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... will appear very great , if we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagination could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , C 3 TO THE SATIRES . 21.
... will appear very great , if we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagination could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , C 3 TO THE SATIRES . 21.
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... most amiable image of steady Virtue , mixed with a modest con- cern for his being forced to undergo the severest proofs of his love for it , which was the being thought hardly of by his SOVEREIGN , Yet foft by nature , more a dupe than ...
... most amiable image of steady Virtue , mixed with a modest con- cern for his being forced to undergo the severest proofs of his love for it , which was the being thought hardly of by his SOVEREIGN , Yet foft by nature , more a dupe than ...
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... most ornamented , with ease . For the reft , his harmony and ftrength of numbers , his force and fplendor of colouring , his gravity and fublimity of fentiment , would have rather led him to another model . Nor was his temper lefs ...
... most ornamented , with ease . For the reft , his harmony and ftrength of numbers , his force and fplendor of colouring , his gravity and fublimity of fentiment , would have rather led him to another model . Nor was his temper lefs ...
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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...