The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of ... Person , Morals , and Family , whereof , to those who knew me not , a truer information may be requisite . Being ...
... Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of ... Person , Morals , and Family , whereof , to those who knew me not , a truer information may be requisite . Being ...
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... person , mo- rals , and family . If Boileau ridicules and rallies vile writers with more seeming pleasantry and good - humour , we ought to recol- lect that Boileau was the aggressor , and had received no previ- ous abuse , when he fell ...
... person , mo- rals , and family . If Boileau ridicules and rallies vile writers with more seeming pleasantry and good - humour , we ought to recol- lect that Boileau was the aggressor , and had received no previ- ous abuse , when he fell ...
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... person and a and a King ) , 65 70 VARIATIONS . Ver . 60 in the former Ed . Cibber and I are , luckily , no friends . NOTES . Ver . 69. ' Tis sung , when Midas ' ] The abruptness with which this story from Persius is introduced ...
... person and a and a King ) , 65 70 VARIATIONS . Ver . 60 in the former Ed . Cibber and I are , luckily , no friends . NOTES . Ver . 69. ' Tis sung , when Midas ' ] The abruptness with which this story from Persius is introduced ...
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... crave ; Yet each declares the other fool or knave . 110 NOTES . Ver . 98. Free - masons Moore ? ] He was of this society , and frequently headed their processions . W. There are , who to my person pay their court 16 PROLOGUE.
... crave ; Yet each declares the other fool or knave . 110 NOTES . Ver . 98. Free - masons Moore ? ] He was of this society , and frequently headed their processions . W. There are , who to my person pay their court 16 PROLOGUE.
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... person ] The smallest personal particularities , notwithstanding some fastidious writers may think them trifling , are interesting in eminent men . Hence is Mon- taigne so pleasing ; hence is Plutarch in his Lives so interesting as well ...
... person ] The smallest personal particularities , notwithstanding some fastidious writers may think them trifling , are interesting in eminent men . Hence is Mon- taigne so pleasing ; hence is Plutarch in his Lives so interesting as well ...
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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?