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 17
... poor man's cause : Then pompous Silence reigns , and stills the noisy laws . XII . Paft fervices of friends , good deeds of foes , What fav'rites gain , and what the nation owes , Fly the forgetful world , and in thy arms repose . XIII ...
... poor man's cause : Then pompous Silence reigns , and stills the noisy laws . XII . Paft fervices of friends , good deeds of foes , What fav'rites gain , and what the nation owes , Fly the forgetful world , and in thy arms repose . XIII ...
Page 21
... Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes wit , and 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 ...
... Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes wit , and 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 ...
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... Poor guiltlefs I ! and can I chufe but fmile , When ev'ry coxcomb knows me by my Style ? Curft be the verfe , how well fo'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give virtue fcandal , innocence a fear , Or from the foft ...
... Poor guiltlefs I ! and can I chufe but fmile , When ev'ry coxcomb knows me by my Style ? Curft be the verfe , how well fo'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give virtue fcandal , innocence a fear , Or from the foft ...
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... poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave to me in ev'ry state ; Alike my fcorn if he fucceed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail ; A hireling fcribbler or a hireling peer , Knight of the Pott corrupt , or of the ...
... poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave to me in ev'ry state ; Alike my fcorn if he fucceed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail ; A hireling fcribbler or a hireling peer , Knight of the Pott corrupt , or of the ...
Page 43
... poor . Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives , ftill we fee ; 35 Thus much is left of old fimplicity ! 2 The robin redbreaft till of late had reft , And children facred held a martin's neft , Till baccaficos fold fo dev'lish dear To one ...
... poor . Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives , ftill we fee ; 35 Thus much is left of old fimplicity ! 2 The robin redbreaft till of late had reft , And children facred held a martin's neft , Till baccaficos fold fo dev'lish dear To one ...
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