The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... this occafion ---- Dès qu'on eft auteur , il femble qu'on foit aux gages d'un tas de fainéans , pour leur fournir de quoi amufer leur oifiveté . And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first Lampoon Sir * C - 3 to the SATIRES . 21.
... this occafion ---- Dès qu'on eft auteur , il femble qu'on foit aux gages d'un tas de fainéans , pour leur fournir de quoi amufer leur oifiveté . And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first Lampoon Sir * C - 3 to the SATIRES . 21.
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Alexander Pope. And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first Lampoon Sir Will . or Bubo makes . Poor guiltless I ! and can I chufe but fmile , When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style ? Curft be the verfe , how well foe'er it flow ...
Alexander Pope. And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first Lampoon Sir Will . or Bubo makes . Poor guiltless I ! and can I chufe but fmile , When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style ? Curft be the verfe , how well foe'er it flow ...
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... fo odious as a Libeller , for the fame reafon as to a man truly vir- tuous nothing is so hateful as a Hypocrite . Uni aequus Virtuti atque ejus Amicis . P. THE First Satire of the Second Book O F HORACE * D 2 ADVERTISEMENT.
... fo odious as a Libeller , for the fame reafon as to a man truly vir- tuous nothing is so hateful as a Hypocrite . Uni aequus Virtuti atque ejus Amicis . P. THE First Satire of the Second Book O F HORACE * D 2 ADVERTISEMENT.
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Alexander Pope. THE First Satire of the Second Book O F HORACE IMITATE D. WHOEVER expects a Paraphrafe of Horace , or a faithful Copy of his genius , or manner of writ- ing , in these IMITATIONS , will be much difap- pointed . Our Author ...
Alexander Pope. THE First Satire of the Second Book O F HORACE IMITATE D. WHOEVER expects a Paraphrafe of Horace , or a faithful Copy of his genius , or manner of writ- ing , in these IMITATIONS , will be much difap- pointed . Our Author ...
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... NOTES . 181 imitation , in the concluding part , obliged him to diver- fify the fentiment . They are equally noble : but Horace's is expreffed with the greater force . THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK O F HORACE Sat. Ik OF HORACE . 75.
... NOTES . 181 imitation , in the concluding part , obliged him to diver- fify the fentiment . They are equally noble : but Horace's is expreffed with the greater force . THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK O F HORACE Sat. Ik OF HORACE . 75.
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Page 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 17 - 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 51 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Page 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Page 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Page 234 - 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 6 - 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 30 - 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 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Page 157 - 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.