The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ....: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four booksWilliam Pickering, 1835 |
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... ancient friends ( though poor , or out of play ) That touch my bell , I cannot turn away . ' Tis true , no turbots dignify my boards , But gudgeons , flounders , what my Thames affords : To Hounslow Heath I point , and Bansted Down ...
... ancient friends ( though poor , or out of play ) That touch my bell , I cannot turn away . ' Tis true , no turbots dignify my boards , But gudgeons , flounders , what my Thames affords : To Hounslow Heath I point , and Bansted Down ...
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... ancient book , And there , in sweet oblivion drown Those cares that haunt the court and town . O charming noons ! and nights divine ! Or when I sup , or when I dine , My friends above , my folks below , Chatting and laughing all - a ...
... ancient book , And there , in sweet oblivion drown Those cares that haunt the court and town . O charming noons ! and nights divine ! Or when I sup , or when I dine , My friends above , my folks below , Chatting and laughing all - a ...
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... ancient poets restrained ; that satire and comedy were become more just and useful ; that whatever extravagancies were left on the stage were owing to the ill taste of the nobility ; that poets , under due regulations , were in many ...
... ancient poets restrained ; that satire and comedy were become more just and useful ; that whatever extravagancies were left on the stage were owing to the ill taste of the nobility ; that poets , under due regulations , were in many ...
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... ancient , right , and sound , Or damn to all eternity at once At ninety - nine a modern and a dunce ? ' We shall not ... ancients like a heap of snow , While you , to measure merits , look in Stowe , And estimating authors by the year ...
... ancient , right , and sound , Or damn to all eternity at once At ninety - nine a modern and a dunce ? ' We shall not ... ancients like a heap of snow , While you , to measure merits , look in Stowe , And estimating authors by the year ...
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... ancient times conspir'd to disallow What then was new , what had been ancient now ? Or what remain'd , so worthy to be read By learned critics of the mighty dead ? In days of ease , when now the weary Was sheath'd , and luxury with ...
... ancient times conspir'd to disallow What then was new , what had been ancient now ? Or what remain'd , so worthy to be read By learned critics of the mighty dead ? In days of ease , when now the weary Was sheath'd , and luxury with ...
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Page 117 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. 0 sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! o all but heaven-directed hands denied,
Page 256 - High on a throne of royal state, that far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind ( Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sate.
Page 3 - whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 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 caa this plague
Page 301 - &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull: Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full!
Page 235 - Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. O thou! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy griev'd country's copper chains unbind;
Page 137 - VIXIT TITULIS ET INVIDIA MAJOR ANNOS, HEU PAUCOS, XXXV. OB. FEB. XIV. MDCCXX. STATESMAN, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend;
Page 49 - and may darken thine. And what is fame ? the meanest have their day; The greatest can but blaze and pass away. Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far,) where kings and poets
Page 12 - makes. Poor guiltless I! and can I choose but smile, When every coxcomb knows me by my style ? Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft ey'd virgin steal a tear! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace,
Page 322 - So upright quakers please both man and God. ' Mistress! dismiss that rabble from your throne : Avaunt is Aristarchus yet unknown ? 210 Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. [ter;
Page 13 - what was never there; Who reads but with a lust to misapply, Makes satire a lampoon, and fiction lie : A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus 1 tremble— A .What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses