The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Page 108
... Ladies like a luckless Play , ] The common reader , I am fenfible , will be always more foli- citous about the names of thefe three Ladies , the unlucky Play , and every other trifling circumftance that attended this piece of gallantry ...
... Ladies like a luckless Play , ] The common reader , I am fenfible , will be always more foli- citous about the names of thefe three Ladies , the unlucky Play , and every other trifling circumftance that attended this piece of gallantry ...
Page 109
... Ladies like a luckless Play , Takes the whole House upon the Poet's day . * Now , in fuch exigencies not to need , Upon my word , you must be rich indeed ; A noble fuperfluity it craves , 90 Not for yourself , but for your Fools and ...
... Ladies like a luckless Play , Takes the whole House upon the Poet's day . * Now , in fuch exigencies not to need , Upon my word , you must be rich indeed ; A noble fuperfluity it craves , 90 Not for yourself , but for your Fools and ...
Page 197
... Lady's ear With rhymes of this per cent . and that per year ? Or court a Wife , fpread out his wily parts , Like nets or lime - twigs , for rich Widows hearts ; Call himself Barrister to ev'ry wench , And wooe in language of the Pleas ...
... Lady's ear With rhymes of this per cent . and that per year ? Or court a Wife , fpread out his wily parts , Like nets or lime - twigs , for rich Widows hearts ; Call himself Barrister to ev'ry wench , And wooe in language of the Pleas ...
Page 214
... Lady's face etc. ] The Original is here very humourous . This torrent of scandal concludes thus , And wifer than all us He knows what Lady the reader expects it will conclude , -what Lady is painted . No , juft the contrary , what Lady ...
... Lady's face etc. ] The Original is here very humourous . This torrent of scandal concludes thus , And wifer than all us He knows what Lady the reader expects it will conclude , -what Lady is painted . No , juft the contrary , what Lady ...
Page 215
... lady vole , But fome excifing Courtier will have toll . He tells what ftrumpet places fells for life , What ' Squire his lands , what citizen his wife : And laft ( which proves him wiser ftill than all ) What Lady's face is not a whited ...
... lady vole , But fome excifing Courtier will have toll . He tells what ftrumpet places fells for life , What ' Squire his lands , what citizen his wife : And laft ( which proves him wiser ftill than all ) What Lady's face is not a whited ...
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Page 5 - 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?
Page 255 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 17 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 24 - Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord.
Page 231 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 5 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 16 - 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 29 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Page 155 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Page 23 - 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. Whether in florid impotence...