The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, ... for J. Sharpe; and sold by W. Suttaby, 1808 |
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Page 43
... keep the post assign'd by Heav'n , And use the copious talent it has giv❜n : Let my good spouse pay tribute , do me right , And keep an equal reck'ning every night ; His proper body is not his , but mine ; For so said Paul , and Paul's ...
... keep the post assign'd by Heav'n , And use the copious talent it has giv❜n : Let my good spouse pay tribute , do me right , And keep an equal reck'ning every night ; His proper body is not his , but mine ; For so said Paul , and Paul's ...
Page 44
... give up all that's female to the devil . If poor ( you say ) she drains her husband's purse ; If rich , she keeps her priest , or something worse ; If highly born , intolerably vain , Vapours and pride 44 THE WIFE OF BATH .
... give up all that's female to the devil . If poor ( you say ) she drains her husband's purse ; If rich , she keeps her priest , or something worse ; If highly born , intolerably vain , Vapours and pride 44 THE WIFE OF BATH .
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... keeps , and sits content within ; But once grown sleek will from her corner run , Sport with her tail , and wanton in the sun : She licks her fair round face , and frisks abroad To show her fur , and to be caterwau'd . Lo thus , my ...
... keeps , and sits content within ; But once grown sleek will from her corner run , Sport with her tail , and wanton in the sun : She licks her fair round face , and frisks abroad To show her fur , and to be caterwau'd . Lo thus , my ...
Page 53
... keeps her marriage vow . ( This by the way , but to my purpose now :) It chane'd my husband , on a winter's night , Read in this book aloud with strange delight , How the first female ( as the Scriptures show ) Brought her own spouse ...
... keeps her marriage vow . ( This by the way , but to my purpose now :) It chane'd my husband , on a winter's night , Read in this book aloud with strange delight , How the first female ( as the Scriptures show ) Brought her own spouse ...
Page 67
... keep them mad or vain . Arthur , whose giddy son neglects the laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which did not ...
... keep them mad or vain . Arthur , whose giddy son neglects the laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which did not ...
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Page 78 - 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 a while one parent from the sky...
Page 76 - 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.
Page 178 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly : In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all.
Page 67 - TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the Laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
Page 129 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Page 76 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 70 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Page 68 - I'm all submission ; what you'd have it, make it." Three things another's modest wishes bound, My friendship, and a prologue, and ten pound. Pitholeon sends to me : " You know his grace : I want a patron ; ask him for a place.
Page 72 - 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...
Page 126 - He stuck to poverty with peace of mind ; And me, the Muses help'd to undergo it ; Convict a papist he, and I a poet. But (thanks to Homer) since I live and thrive, Indebted to no prince or peer alive ; Sure I should want the care of ten Monroes,3 If I would scribble rather than repose.