The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1854 - 363 pages |
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... E'en Sunday shines no sabbath day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy to catch me just at dinner time . Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer , A maudlin poetess , a rhyming peer , A clerk foredoom'd his ...
... E'en Sunday shines no sabbath day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy to catch me just at dinner time . Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer , A maudlin poetess , a rhyming peer , A clerk foredoom'd his ...
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... E'en mitred Rochester would nod the head , And St. John's self ( great Dryden's friends before ) With open arms receiv'd one poet more . Happy my studies , when by these approv'd ! Happier their author , when by these belov'd ! From ...
... E'en mitred Rochester would nod the head , And St. John's self ( great Dryden's friends before ) With open arms receiv'd one poet more . Happy my studies , when by these approv'd ! Happier their author , when by these belov'd ! From ...
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... e'en fools ; by flatterers besieg❜d , And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato , give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise , And wonder OF POPE . 9.
... e'en fools ; by flatterers besieg❜d , And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato , give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise , And wonder OF POPE . 9.
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... E'en those you touch not , hate you . P. What should ail ' em ? F. A hundred smart in Timon and in Balaam : The fewer still you name , you wound the more ; Bond is but one , but Harpax is a score . 5 Sir Richard Blackmore . • At the ...
... E'en those you touch not , hate you . P. What should ail ' em ? F. A hundred smart in Timon and in Balaam : The fewer still you name , you wound the more ; Bond is but one , but Harpax is a score . 5 Sir Richard Blackmore . • At the ...
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... e'en in Louis ' reign ? Could laureate Dryden pimp and friar engage , Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage ? And I not strip the gilding off a knave , Unplac'd , unpension'd , no man's heir or slave ? I will , or perish in the ...
... e'en in Louis ' reign ? Could laureate Dryden pimp and friar engage , Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage ? And I not strip the gilding off a knave , Unplac'd , unpension'd , no man's heir or slave ? I will , or perish in the ...
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