The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1859 |
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... mind , That casting weight pride adds to emptiness , This who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown , Who turns a Persian tale for half - a - crown , 1 1 Ambrose Philips translated the Persian Tales ...
... mind , That casting weight pride adds to emptiness , This who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown , Who turns a Persian tale for half - a - crown , 1 1 Ambrose Philips translated the Persian Tales ...
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... mind That leaves the load of yesterday behind ! How easy every labour it pursues ! How coming to the poet every Muse ! Not but we may exceed some holy time , Or tir'd in search of truth or search of rhyme : Ill health some just ...
... mind That leaves the load of yesterday behind ! How easy every labour it pursues ! How coming to the poet every Muse ! Not but we may exceed some holy time , Or tir'd in search of truth or search of rhyme : Ill health some just ...
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... mind , Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind . And who stands safest ? tell me , is it he That spreads and swells in puff'd prosperity , Or bless'd with little , whose preventing care In peace provides fit arms against a war ? " Thus ...
... mind , Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind . And who stands safest ? tell me , is it he That spreads and swells in puff'd prosperity , Or bless'd with little , whose preventing care In peace provides fit arms against a war ? " Thus ...
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... mind To get my warrant quickly sign'd : Consider , ' tis my first request .'- ' Be satisfied , I'll do my best : ' - Then presently he falls to tease , ' You may be certain , if you please ; I doubt not , if his lordship knew— And , Mr ...
... mind To get my warrant quickly sign'd : Consider , ' tis my first request .'- ' Be satisfied , I'll do my best : ' - Then presently he falls to tease , ' You may be certain , if you please ; I doubt not , if his lordship knew— And , Mr ...
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... mind , When ( each opinion with the next at strife , One ebb and flow of follies all my life ) , I plant , root up ; I build , and then confound ; Turn round to square , and square again to round ; You never change one muscle of your ...
... mind , When ( each opinion with the next at strife , One ebb and flow of follies all my life ) , I plant , root up ; I build , and then confound ; Turn round to square , and square again to round ; You never change one muscle of your ...
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Page 14 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 360 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
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.
Page 7 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Page 16 - 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...
Page 8 - 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 141 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end, These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies GAY...
Page 3 - 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 ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, — if friends, they read me dead.
Page 360 - Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest; Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is Night: See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Page 3 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song...