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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Page 66
... lefs than Jove , and to much above a king : Nay , half in heav'n - 11 except ( what's mighty odd ) A fit of vapours clouds this demigod . Æstuat , et vitæ disconvenit ordine toto ? * Diruit , ædificat , mutat quadrata rotundis ? 3 ...
... lefs than Jove , and to much above a king : Nay , half in heav'n - 11 except ( what's mighty odd ) A fit of vapours clouds this demigod . Æstuat , et vitæ disconvenit ordine toto ? * Diruit , ædificat , mutat quadrata rotundis ? 3 ...
Page 109
... lefs nor bigger . I neither strut with ev'ry fav'ring breath , Nor strive with all the tempeft in my teeth ; In pow'r , wit , figure , virtue , fortune plac'd Behind the foremost , and before the last . 285 290 295 300 1 Utar , et ex ...
... lefs nor bigger . I neither strut with ev'ry fav'ring breath , Nor strive with all the tempeft in my teeth ; In pow'r , wit , figure , virtue , fortune plac'd Behind the foremost , and before the last . 285 290 295 300 1 Utar , et ex ...
Page 124
... lefs joy than they . Piece - meal they win this acre first , then that , Glean on , and gather up the whole estate ; Then strongly fencing ill - got wealth by law , Indentures , cov nants , articles , they draw , Large as the fields ...
... lefs joy than they . Piece - meal they win this acre first , then that , Glean on , and gather up the whole estate ; Then strongly fencing ill - got wealth by law , Indentures , cov nants , articles , they draw , Large as the fields ...
Page 183
... lefs in their morals than in their writings , must poverty make nonsense sacred ? if so , the fame of bad authors would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been ...
... lefs in their morals than in their writings , must poverty make nonsense sacred ? if so , the fame of bad authors would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been ...
Page 239
... lefs infallibility than his namefake at Romefs . Mr. POPE only a Verfifier . The smooth numbers of the Dunciad are all that recommend it , nor has it any other merit |||| . It must be owned that he hath got a notable knack of rhym- ing ...
... lefs infallibility than his namefake at Romefs . Mr. POPE only a Verfifier . The smooth numbers of the Dunciad are all that recommend it , nor has it any other merit |||| . It must be owned that he hath got a notable knack of rhym- ing ...
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