The Poetical Works: Of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. From the Text of Dr. Warburton. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Pocket Edition. ... Embellished with Superb Engravings, Volume 2C. Cooke, 1795 |
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... strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain . Arthur , whose giddy fon neglects the laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd Works the caufe : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , 25 And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . Friend to my ...
... strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain . Arthur , whose giddy fon neglects the laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd Works the caufe : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , 25 And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . Friend to my ...
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... strains from hard - bound brains eight lines a - year ; 175 180 He who still wanting , tho he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left ; And he who now to sense , now nonsense , leaning , 185 Means not , but ...
... strains from hard - bound brains eight lines a - year ; 175 180 He who still wanting , tho he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left ; And he who now to sense , now nonsense , leaning , 185 Means not , but ...
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... strain Flatt'rers and bigots e'en in Louis ' reign ? 106 110 Dente lupus , cornu taurus petit , unde . nifi intus Monstratum ? Scævæ vivacem crede nepoti Matrem ; nil faciet fceleris pia dextera : ( mirum ! Ut neque calce lupus quemquam ...
... strain Flatt'rers and bigots e'en in Louis ' reign ? 106 110 Dente lupus , cornu taurus petit , unde . nifi intus Monstratum ? Scævæ vivacem crede nepoti Matrem ; nil faciet fceleris pia dextera : ( mirum ! Ut neque calce lupus quemquam ...
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... strain . A weafel once made shift to flink In at a corn - loft thro ' a chink ; But having amply stuff'd his skin , Could not get out as he got in ; Which one belonging to the house ( ' Twas not a man , it was a Moufe ) Observing , cry ...
... strain . A weafel once made shift to flink In at a corn - loft thro ' a chink ; But having amply stuff'd his skin , Could not get out as he got in ; Which one belonging to the house ( ' Twas not a man , it was a Moufe ) Observing , cry ...
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... strain , And feels that grace his pray'r befought in vain ; The bleffing thrills thro ' all the lab'ring throng , And 5 heav'n is won by violence of fong . 240 6 Our rural ancestors , with little bleft , Patient of labour when the end ...
... strain , And feels that grace his pray'r befought in vain ; The bleffing thrills thro ' all the lab'ring throng , And 5 heav'n is won by violence of fong . 240 6 Our rural ancestors , with little bleft , Patient of labour when the end ...
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