Miscellany poems. By mr. Pope (By several hands). |
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... fuch clothes , I'd have fine eyes and teeth without my nofe . You that from pliant paste wou'd fabricks raise , Expecting thence to gain immortal praise ; Your knuckles try , and let your finews know , Their pow'r to kneed , and give ...
... fuch clothes , I'd have fine eyes and teeth without my nofe . You that from pliant paste wou'd fabricks raise , Expecting thence to gain immortal praise ; Your knuckles try , and let your finews know , Their pow'r to kneed , and give ...
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... fuch abundant store , He show'rs his godlike bleffings on the poor . In days of old our fathers went to war , Expecting sturdy blows , and hardy fare : Their beef they often in their murrions stew'd , And in their basket - hilts their ...
... fuch abundant store , He show'rs his godlike bleffings on the poor . In days of old our fathers went to war , Expecting sturdy blows , and hardy fare : Their beef they often in their murrions stew'd , And in their basket - hilts their ...
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... fuch a vaft confufion ' tis delight , To find the jarring elements unite , And raise a structure grateful to the fight . Be not too far by old example led , With caution now we in their footsteps tread ; The French our relish help , and ...
... fuch a vaft confufion ' tis delight , To find the jarring elements unite , And raise a structure grateful to the fight . Be not too far by old example led , With caution now we in their footsteps tread ; The French our relish help , and ...
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... wardens bak'd some cry , But ' tis with an intention men should buy . Others abound with fuch a plenteous ftore , That if you'll let them treat , they'll ask no more : And And ' tis the yaft ambition of their foul , 28 The ART of COOKERY .
... wardens bak'd some cry , But ' tis with an intention men should buy . Others abound with fuch a plenteous ftore , That if you'll let them treat , they'll ask no more : And And ' tis the yaft ambition of their foul , 28 The ART of COOKERY .
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... fuch grace his honour's actions praises How well he fences , dances , fings and plays ; Tell him his liv'ry's rich , his chariot's fine , How choice his meat , and delicate his wine ; Surrounded thus , how fhould the youth descry The ...
... fuch grace his honour's actions praises How well he fences , dances , fings and plays ; Tell him his liv'ry's rich , his chariot's fine , How choice his meat , and delicate his wine ; Surrounded thus , how fhould the youth descry The ...
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Page 197 - To find if books, or swains, report it right (For yet by swains alone the world he knew...
Page 204 - The Maker justly claims that world he made, In this the right of Providence is laid; Its sacred majesty through all depends On using second means to work his ends...
Page 198 - And hail, my son," the reverend sire replied ; Words follow'd words, from question answer flow'd, And talk of various kind deceiv'd the road ; Till each with other pleas'd, and loth to part, While in their age they differ, join in heart : Thus stands an aged elm in ivy bound, Thus youthful ivy clasps an elm around.
Page 205 - With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver...
Page 203 - His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet ; Fair rounds of radiant points...
Page 200 - Unkind and griping, caus'da desert there. As near the miser's heavy doors they drew, Fierce rising gusts with sudden fury blew ; The nimble lightning mix'd with showers began, And o'er their heads loud rolling thunder ran.
Page 196 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 219 - SONG. WHEN thy beauty appears, In its graces and airs, All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky ; At distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears, So strangely you dazzle my eye ! But when without art, Your kind thoughts you impart, When your love runs in blushes through every vein; When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart, Then I know you're a woman again. There's a passion and pride In our sex...
Page 198 - The table groans with costly piles of food, And all Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Page 210 - For which, an eloquence, that aims to vex, With native tropes of anger, arms the sex.