The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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Page 56
... hath faid , " That fatire and invective were the " eafieft kind of wit , because almoft any degree of it would ferve to abuse " and find fault . For wit ( fays he ) is a keen instrument , and every one " can cut and gash with it . But ...
... hath faid , " That fatire and invective were the " eafieft kind of wit , because almoft any degree of it would ferve to abuse " and find fault . For wit ( fays he ) is a keen instrument , and every one " can cut and gash with it . But ...
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... Hath made him an attorney of an ass . 50 No For if one eat my meat , though it be known The meat was mine , the excrement's his own . But thefe do me no harm , nor they which ufe , to outufure Jews , • T'outdrink the fea , t ' outswear ...
... Hath made him an attorney of an ass . 50 No For if one eat my meat , though it be known The meat was mine , the excrement's his own . But thefe do me no harm , nor they which ufe , to outufure Jews , • T'outdrink the fea , t ' outswear ...
Page 73
... hath brought them there , And to every fuitor lye in every thing , Like a king's favourite - or like a king . Like a wedge in a block , wring to the barre , Bearing like affes , and more fhameless farre Than carted whores , lye to the ...
... hath brought them there , And to every fuitor lye in every thing , Like a king's favourite - or like a king . Like a wedge in a block , wring to the barre , Bearing like affes , and more fhameless farre Than carted whores , lye to the ...
Page 77
... hath been Poyfon'd with love to fee or to be seen , I had no fuit there , nor new fuit to show , Yet went to court ; but as glare which did go To mafs in jeft , catch'd , was fain to disburse Two hundred markes which is the ftatutes ...
... hath been Poyfon'd with love to fee or to be seen , I had no fuit there , nor new fuit to show , Yet went to court ; but as glare which did go To mafs in jeft , catch'd , was fain to disburse Two hundred markes which is the ftatutes ...
Page 79
... hath travail'd , and , faith , speaks all tongues , And only knoweth what to all ftates belongs , Made of th ' accents , and beft phrafe of all thefe , He speaks one language . If ftrange meats difplease , You would leave loneness . I ...
... hath travail'd , and , faith , speaks all tongues , And only knoweth what to all ftates belongs , Made of th ' accents , and beft phrafe of all thefe , He speaks one language . If ftrange meats difplease , You would leave loneness . I ...
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Page 127 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 2 - Pope. 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?
Page 104 - 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 touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 3 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Page 9 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 281 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Page 11 - 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 2 - 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 can this plague remove?
Page 171 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Page 127 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...