The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... afterwards Countess of Suffolk - the Chloe of the poem - heard her order her footman to put her in mind to send to know how Mrs. Blount , who was ill , had passed the night . ] From peer or bishop ' tis no easy thing 195 EP . II . ] 27 ...
... afterwards Countess of Suffolk - the Chloe of the poem - heard her order her footman to put her in mind to send to know how Mrs. Blount , who was ill , had passed the night . ] From peer or bishop ' tis no easy thing 195 EP . II . ] 27 ...
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... afterwards swore that the mortal wound was given , not by Lord Mohun , but by his second , General Macartney , who , he said , made a push at the duke while he was down . This accusation was unsupported by proof , and Colonel Hamilton ...
... afterwards swore that the mortal wound was given , not by Lord Mohun , but by his second , General Macartney , who , he said , made a push at the duke while he was down . This accusation was unsupported by proof , and Colonel Hamilton ...
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... afterwards , he was again on a visit to the Duchess , but the tables were turned . She never grieved , but raged , and stormed , and railed : " She is pretty quiet now , but has a diabo- lical temper . " Swift afterwards gives a very ...
... afterwards , he was again on a visit to the Duchess , but the tables were turned . She never grieved , but raged , and stormed , and railed : " She is pretty quiet now , but has a diabo- lical temper . " Swift afterwards gives a very ...
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... afterwards , to the age of eighty - four , was a scene of restless- ness , turbulence , and intrigue . With nearly all her family she was at open war , and her insolence , her irreligion , and avarice , seemed to increase with her age ...
... afterwards , to the age of eighty - four , was a scene of restless- ness , turbulence , and intrigue . With nearly all her family she was at open war , and her insolence , her irreligion , and avarice , seemed to increase with her age ...
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... afterwards she writes again to Lord Marchmont , ac- knowledging with evident pleasure the receipt of a letter from his Lordship , with another from Pope , and stating , that if she could in the country receive letters from them , she ...
... afterwards she writes again to Lord Marchmont , ac- knowledging with evident pleasure the receipt of a letter from his Lordship , with another from Pope , and stating , that if she could in the country receive letters from them , she ...
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Page 76 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 112 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 117 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 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 105 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 67 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 87 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 59 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 91 - Flood contain, The Mole projected break the roaring Main; Back to his bounds their subject Sea command, And roll obedient Rivers thro' the Land: These Honours, Peace to happy Britain brings, These are Imperial Works, and worthy Kings.
Page 132 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 112 - While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...