Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 pages |
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... Queen Anne are in Pope's mind , the personages of the court of George II . and Caroline under his pen . Pope's Satires and Epistles certainly do not equal Lord Hervey's Memoirs in truth , or fulness and development of detail . But they ...
... Queen Anne are in Pope's mind , the personages of the court of George II . and Caroline under his pen . Pope's Satires and Epistles certainly do not equal Lord Hervey's Memoirs in truth , or fulness and development of detail . But they ...
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... queen , was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a sorer case , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? 70 A. Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang'rous things , I'd never name queens , ministers , or kings ...
... queen , was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a sorer case , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? 70 A. Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang'rous things , I'd never name queens , ministers , or kings ...
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... just as rich as when he serv'd a queen . A. Whether that blessing be deny'd or giv'n , Thus far was right , the rest belongs to heav'n . 410 390 SATIRES AND EPISTLES . To Mr. Fortescue . ( HORACE 36 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
... just as rich as when he serv'd a queen . A. Whether that blessing be deny'd or giv'n , Thus far was right , the rest belongs to heav'n . 410 390 SATIRES AND EPISTLES . To Mr. Fortescue . ( HORACE 36 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
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... Queen ; 30 A Scot will fight for Christ's Kirk o ' the Green ; And each true Briton is to Ben so civil , He swears the muses met him at The devil . 40 Tho ' justly Greece her eldest sons admires , Why shou'd not we be wiser than our ...
... Queen ; 30 A Scot will fight for Christ's Kirk o ' the Green ; And each true Briton is to Ben so civil , He swears the muses met him at The devil . 40 Tho ' justly Greece her eldest sons admires , Why shou'd not we be wiser than our ...
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... queens , and gods of kings , All , all but truth , drops dead - born from the press , Like the last Gazette , or the last Address . When black ambition stains a public cause , A monarch's sword when mad vain - glory draws , Not Waller's ...
... queens , and gods of kings , All , all but truth , drops dead - born from the press , Like the last Gazette , or the last Address . When black ambition stains a public cause , A monarch's sword when mad vain - glory draws , Not Waller's ...
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Page 30 - 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...
Page 125 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 24 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 28 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Page 146 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 25 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, " Furies, death, and rage! " If I approve,
Page 27 - One flatt'rer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes; One from all Grub Street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe.
Page 25 - 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, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Page 146 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.