The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volume 11806 |
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... please them at any rate . Methinks , as on the one hand , no single man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the rest , so on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and time of any ...
... please them at any rate . Methinks , as on the one hand , no single man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the rest , so on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and time of any ...
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... please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a Critic's is to put them out of • In the former editions it was thus - For as long as one fide despises a well - meant endeavour , the other ...
... please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a Critic's is to put them out of • In the former editions it was thus - For as long as one fide despises a well - meant endeavour , the other ...
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... please us , deserve fomething at our hands . We have no cause to quarrel with them but for their obstinacy in persisting to write ; and this too may admit of alleviating circumstances . Their particular friends may be either ignorant ...
... please us , deserve fomething at our hands . We have no cause to quarrel with them but for their obstinacy in persisting to write ; and this too may admit of alleviating circumstances . Their particular friends may be either ignorant ...
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... please the world , he falls under very unlucky circumstances : for , from the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth , than if he were a Prince or a Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe . ( and indeed there are twenty ...
... please the world , he falls under very unlucky circumstances : for , from the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth , than if he were a Prince or a Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe . ( and indeed there are twenty ...
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... please such as it was a credit to please . To what degree I have done this , I am really ignorant ; I had too much fondnefs for my productions to judge of them at first , and too much judgment to be pleased with them at last . But I ...
... please such as it was a credit to please . To what degree I have done this , I am really ignorant ; I had too much fondnefs for my productions to judge of them at first , and too much judgment to be pleased with them at last . But I ...
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Page 315 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.
Page 306 - Safe from the treach'rous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires ? Tis but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though honour is the word with men below.
Page 180 - 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.
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Page 289 - Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit: The Fair...
Page 180 - ... 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 315 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 314 - While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel...
Page 221 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth...