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... Satire IV . Paul's , Versified . - 141 - 209 247 - 264 EPILOGUE to the SATIRES . Dialogue I. - Dialogue II . - On ... Satire of Pope , entitled , One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty · 341 = 345 † The Plan of an Epic Poem , to have been ...
... Satire IV . Paul's , Versified . - 141 - 209 247 - 264 EPILOGUE to the SATIRES . Dialogue I. - Dialogue II . - On ... Satire of Pope , entitled , One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty · 341 = 345 † The Plan of an Epic Poem , to have been ...
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... Satire of the Second Book of Horace , in these words : " In two large columns , on thy motley page , Where Roman wit is strip'd with English rage ; Where ribaldry to satire makes pretence , And modern scandal rolls with ancient sense ...
... Satire of the Second Book of Horace , in these words : " In two large columns , on thy motley page , Where Roman wit is strip'd with English rage ; Where ribaldry to satire makes pretence , And modern scandal rolls with ancient sense ...
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... Satire should , like a polish'd razor keen , Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen . Thine is an oyster - knife , that hacks and hews , The rage , but not the talent of abuse ; And is in hate what love is in the stews ; " Tis ...
... Satire should , like a polish'd razor keen , Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen . Thine is an oyster - knife , that hacks and hews , The rage , but not the talent of abuse ; And is in hate what love is in the stews ; " Tis ...
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... satire is far more easy to be imitated than the oblique , indirect , delicate touches of Horace . The judgment of L ... Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and con- firmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured ...
... satire is far more easy to be imitated than the oblique , indirect , delicate touches of Horace . The judgment of L ... Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and con- firmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured ...
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... satire of L'Equivoque . Patru was four years altering and correcting the first paragraph of his translation of the oration for Archias . Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury TO THE SATIRES . 11.
... satire of L'Equivoque . Patru was four years altering and correcting the first paragraph of his translation of the oration for Archias . Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury TO THE SATIRES . 11.
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Page 13 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 32 - 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 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 337 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Page 37 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 77 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Page 45 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 53 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?