The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... admires the Palace than the Park : a Faith I fhall give the answer Reynard gave : " I cannot like , dread Sir , your Royal Cave : " Because I fee , by all the tracks about , 115 " Full many a Beast goes in , but none come out . " Adieu ...
... admires the Palace than the Park : a Faith I fhall give the answer Reynard gave : " I cannot like , dread Sir , your Royal Cave : " Because I fee , by all the tracks about , 115 " Full many a Beast goes in , but none come out . " Adieu ...
Page 101
... admire , is all the Art I know , To make men happy , and to keep them fo . " ( Plain Truth , dear MURRAY , needs no flow'rs of speech , So take it in the very words of Creech . ) This Vault of Air , this congregated Ball , Self - center ...
... admire , is all the Art I know , To make men happy , and to keep them fo . " ( Plain Truth , dear MURRAY , needs no flow'rs of speech , So take it in the very words of Creech . ) This Vault of Air , this congregated Ball , Self - center ...
Page 102
... admire ; ] i . e . Thefe objects , in either cafe , affect us , as objects unknown affect the mind , and confequently betray us into falfe judgments . VER . 22. Whether we joy or grieve , the fame the curse , Surpriz'd at better , or ...
... admire ; ] i . e . Thefe objects , in either cafe , affect us , as objects unknown affect the mind , and confequently betray us into falfe judgments . VER . 22. Whether we joy or grieve , the fame the curse , Surpriz'd at better , or ...
Page 103
... admire ; i Whether we 1 joy or grieve , the same the curse , Surpriz'd at better , or surpriz'd at worse . Thus good or bad , to one extreme betray Th ' unbalanc'd Mind , and snatch the Man away ; k For Virtue's felf may too much zeal ...
... admire ; i Whether we 1 joy or grieve , the same the curse , Surpriz'd at better , or surpriz'd at worse . Thus good or bad , to one extreme betray Th ' unbalanc'd Mind , and snatch the Man away ; k For Virtue's felf may too much zeal ...
Page 105
... admire but be admir'd , Sigh , while his Chloe blind to Wit and Worth Weds the rich Dulness of fome Son of earth ? Yet Time ennobles , or degrades each Line ; It brighten'd CRAGGS's , and may darken thine : And what is Fame ? the ...
... admire but be admir'd , Sigh , while his Chloe blind to Wit and Worth Weds the rich Dulness of fome Son of earth ? Yet Time ennobles , or degrades each Line ; It brighten'd CRAGGS's , and may darken thine : And what is Fame ? the ...
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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...