The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 - English literature |
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... most infignificant of all Dunces , bad Rhymers and malevolent Cavillers : That he ought to raise and eno- ble it by pointing his Satire against the most pernicious of all , Minute philofophers and B 3 Free- Free - thinkers . I imagined ...
... most infignificant of all Dunces , bad Rhymers and malevolent Cavillers : That he ought to raise and eno- ble it by pointing his Satire against the most pernicious of all , Minute philofophers and B 3 Free- Free - thinkers . I imagined ...
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... most unfeigned pleasure . The SIXTH Volume confifts of Mr. Pope's mifcellaneous pieces in verse and profe . Amongst the Verfe feveral fine poems make now their first appearance in his Works . And of the Profe , all that is good , and ...
... most unfeigned pleasure . The SIXTH Volume confifts of Mr. Pope's mifcellaneous pieces in verse and profe . Amongst the Verfe feveral fine poems make now their first appearance in his Works . And of the Profe , all that is good , and ...
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... most part , is to please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but fuch a Cri- tic's is to put them out of humour ; a defign he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . I think a ...
... most part , is to please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but fuch a Cri- tic's is to put them out of humour ; a defign he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . I think a ...
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... most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine Genius as with a fine fashion , all those are dif- pleased at it who are not able to follow it : and it is to be feared that esteem will feldom do any man fo much good , as ...
... most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine Genius as with a fine fashion , all those are dif- pleased at it who are not able to follow it : and it is to be feared that esteem will feldom do any man fo much good , as ...
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... most powerfully bent ; and it was the business of their lives to correct and finish their works for pofterity . we can pretend to have used the same industry , let us expect the fame immortality : Tho ' if we took the fame care , we ...
... most powerfully bent ; and it was the business of their lives to correct and finish their works for pofterity . we can pretend to have used the same industry , let us expect the fame immortality : Tho ' if we took the fame care , we ...
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Page 243 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 146 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 261 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew^ And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Page 253 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Page 186 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 245 - Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light. Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Page 236 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Page 254 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 98 - The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Page 262 - Here living tea-pots stand, one arm held out, One bent ; the handle this, and that the spout...