The Poetical Works: Of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. From the Text of Dr. Warburton. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Pocket Edition. ... Embellished with Superb Engravings, Volume 2C. Cooke, 1795 |
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Page 64
... king's a lion , at the leaft The people are a many - headed beaft : Can they direct what meafures to purfue , Who know themselves so little what to do ? Alike in nothing but one lust of gold , 120 125 Juft half the land would buy , and ...
... king's a lion , at the leaft The people are a many - headed beaft : Can they direct what meafures to purfue , Who know themselves so little what to do ? Alike in nothing but one lust of gold , 120 125 Juft half the land would buy , and ...
Page 66
... king : Nay , half in heav'n - 11 except ( what's mighty odd ) A fit of vapours clouds this demigod . Æstuat , et vitæ disconvenit ordine toto ? * Diruit , ædificat , mutat quadrata rotundis ? 3 Infanire putas folennia me , neque rides ...
... king : Nay , half in heav'n - 11 except ( what's mighty odd ) A fit of vapours clouds this demigod . Æstuat , et vitæ disconvenit ordine toto ? * Diruit , ædificat , mutat quadrata rotundis ? 3 Infanire putas folennia me , neque rides ...
Page 67
... kings ? Say with what 6 eyes we ought at courts to gaze , And pay the great our homage of amaze ? 5 IO } 15 If weak the 7 pleasure that from these can spring , The fear to want them is as weak a thing : Whether we dread , or whether we ...
... kings ? Say with what 6 eyes we ought at courts to gaze , And pay the great our homage of amaze ? 5 IO } 15 If weak the 7 pleasure that from these can spring , The fear to want them is as weak a thing : Whether we dread , or whether we ...
Page 69
... kings and poets lie ; 2 Where Murray ( long enough his country's pride ) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde ! low gains : 50 55 3 Rack'd with sciatics , martyr'd with the stone , Will any mortal let himself alone ? See Ward , by ...
... kings and poets lie ; 2 Where Murray ( long enough his country's pride ) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde ! low gains : 50 55 3 Rack'd with sciatics , martyr'd with the stone , Will any mortal let himself alone ? See Ward , by ...
Page 80
... kings a name Above all Greek , above all Roman , fame ; * Whose word is truth , as facred and rever'd 2 As Heav'n's own oracles from altars heard . Wonder of kings ! like whom , to mortal eyes , 3 None e'er has rifen , and none e'er ...
... kings a name Above all Greek , above all Roman , fame ; * Whose word is truth , as facred and rever'd 2 As Heav'n's own oracles from altars heard . Wonder of kings ! like whom , to mortal eyes , 3 None e'er has rifen , and none e'er ...
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