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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... poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which , did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong , ) What drop or noftrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me , a fool's wrath or love ? 30 A dire dilemna ! either ...
... poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which , did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong , ) What drop or noftrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me , a fool's wrath or love ? 30 A dire dilemna ! either ...
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... poetry , but profe run mad : All these my modest Satire bade translate , And own'd that nine fuch poets made a Tate . How did they fume , and stamp , and roar , and chafe ! And swear not Addison himself was safe . Peace to all fuch ...
... poetry , but profe run mad : All these my modest Satire bade translate , And own'd that nine fuch poets made a Tate . How did they fume , and stamp , and roar , and chafe ! And swear not Addison himself was safe . Peace to all fuch ...
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... poetry , and prate , To Bufo left the whole Castalian state . 225 230 Proud as Apollo on his forked hill Sat full - blown Bufo , puff'd by ev'ry quill ; Fed with foft dedication all day long , Horace and he went hand in hand in fong ...
... poetry , and prate , To Bufo left the whole Castalian state . 225 230 Proud as Apollo on his forked hill Sat full - blown Bufo , puff'd by ev'ry quill ; Fed with foft dedication all day long , Horace and he went hand in hand in fong ...
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... poetry ; whereas it was an apology for the poets , in order to render Augustus more their patron . Horace here pleads the cause of his contem- poraries ; first , against the taste of the town , whose humour it was to magnify the authors ...
... poetry ; whereas it was an apology for the poets , in order to render Augustus more their patron . Horace here pleads the cause of his contem- poraries ; first , against the taste of the town , whose humour it was to magnify the authors ...
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... poetry no more confin'd , I'll learn to fmooth and harmonize my mind , Teach ev'ry thought within its bounds to roll , And keep the equal measure of the foul . 1 2 Soon as I enter at my country door My mind refumes the thread it dropp'd ...
... poetry no more confin'd , I'll learn to fmooth and harmonize my mind , Teach ev'ry thought within its bounds to roll , And keep the equal measure of the foul . 1 2 Soon as I enter at my country door My mind refumes the thread it dropp'd ...
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