The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1835 - English poetry |
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... rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And without sneering teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend , A ...
... rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And without sneering teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend , A ...
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... as air . How pale each worshipful and reverend guest Rise from a clergy or a city feast ! What life in all that ample body say ? What heavenly particle inspires the clay ? The soul subsides , and wickedly inclines To seem but 28 THE POEMS.
... as air . How pale each worshipful and reverend guest Rise from a clergy or a city feast ! What life in all that ample body say ? What heavenly particle inspires the clay ? The soul subsides , and wickedly inclines To seem but 28 THE POEMS.
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... rise and fall , There are , my friend ! whose philosophic eyes Look through , and trust the Ruler with his skies ; To him commit the hour , the day , the year , And view this dreadful all - without a fear . Afterwards Lord Mansfield ...
... rise and fall , There are , my friend ! whose philosophic eyes Look through , and trust the Ruler with his skies ; To him commit the hour , the day , the year , And view this dreadful all - without a fear . Afterwards Lord Mansfield ...
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... rise ; Add one round hundred , and ( if that's not fair ) Add fifty more , and bring it to a square : For , mark th'advantage ; just so many score Will gain a wife with half as many more , Procure her beauty , make that beauty chaste ...
... rise ; Add one round hundred , and ( if that's not fair ) Add fifty more , and bring it to a square : For , mark th'advantage ; just so many score Will gain a wife with half as many more , Procure her beauty , make that beauty chaste ...
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... rising ray Each star of meaner merit fades away ! Oppress'd we feel the beam directly beat ; Those suns of glory please ... rise . Just in one instance , be it yet confest Your people , sir , are partial in the rest ; Foes to all living ...
... rising ray Each star of meaner merit fades away ! Oppress'd we feel the beam directly beat ; Those suns of glory please ... rise . Just in one instance , be it yet confest Your people , sir , are partial in the rest ; Foes to all living ...
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Page 3 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel,
Page 141 - Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Page 36 - How's the wind ?' ' Whose chariot's that we left behind ?' Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day ' From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Page 9 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 11 - Proud as Apollo on his forked hill, Sat full-blown Bufo, puff'd by every quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Page 42 - That keep me from myself; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task, which as we follow, or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise : Which done, the poorest can no wants endure ; And which not done, the richest must be poor.
Page 17 - Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Page 15 - Th' imputed trash, and dulness not his own ; The morals blacken'd when the writings 'scape, The libell'd person, and the pictur'd shape ; Abuse, on all he lov'd, or lov'd him, spread, A friend in exile, or a father dead : The whisper, that to greatness still too near, Perhaps yet vibrates on his sovereign's ear — Welcome for thee, fair virtue ! all the past : For thee, fair virtue ! welcome ev'n the last ! A. But why insult the poor, affront the great ? P.
Page 9 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 140 - Kneller, by Heaven, and not a master taught, Whose art was nature, and whose pictures thought ; Now for two ages, having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes' honours, Poets' lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise.