The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... an honest conscious pride , mixt with a scorn of doing , or fuffering the least thing beneath the dignity of a Philofopher . Accordingly he he had a foul that would not let him accept Introduction to the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus.
... an honest conscious pride , mixt with a scorn of doing , or fuffering the least thing beneath the dignity of a Philofopher . Accordingly he he had a foul that would not let him accept Introduction to the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus.
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... least have fome to his natural " Faculties . Behold with what agility he spreadeth his " Toes , and moveth them with as great variety as his fingers a power which , in the fmall circle of a year , " may be totally abolished , by the ...
... least have fome to his natural " Faculties . Behold with what agility he spreadeth his " Toes , and moveth them with as great variety as his fingers a power which , in the fmall circle of a year , " may be totally abolished , by the ...
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... least make the Tour of " the whole fyftem of the Sun. Let other Mortals pore " upon Maps , and fwallow the legends of lying travel- " lers : the fon of Cornelius fhall make his own Legs " his Compaffes ; with those he shall measure ...
... least make the Tour of " the whole fyftem of the Sun. Let other Mortals pore " upon Maps , and fwallow the legends of lying travel- " lers : the fon of Cornelius fhall make his own Legs " his Compaffes ; with those he shall measure ...
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... least of the many Discoveries and Ex- periments he made therein . One of the first was his method of investigating latent Diftempers , by the fagacious Quality of Setting Dogs and Pointers . The fuccefs , and the Adventures that befel ...
... least of the many Discoveries and Ex- periments he made therein . One of the first was his method of investigating latent Diftempers , by the fagacious Quality of Setting Dogs and Pointers . The fuccefs , and the Adventures that befel ...
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... have to complain of ; for though it is evident that we never made the least at- tempt or inroad into Their territories , but lived con- tented tented in our native fens ; they have often not 130 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS .
... have to complain of ; for though it is evident that we never made the least at- tempt or inroad into Their territories , but lived con- tented tented in our native fens ; they have often not 130 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS .
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Page 347 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 347 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 176 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
Page 404 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...
Page 250 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Page 57 - OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child : With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted ev'n among the great : 6 A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblam'd thro
Page 201 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Page 347 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body; peace of mind; Quiet by day ; Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix'd; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 277 - Vati noceat . But however this contention might be carried on by the Partizans on either side, I cannot help thinking these two great Poets were good friends, and lived on amicable terms and in offices of society with each other.
Page 268 - I fay of the honour fo many of the Great have done me, while the...