The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 4A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 - English poetry |
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... most commonly , it was formed on that of half a dozen people in fashion ; who took the lead , and who fometimes . have intruded on the Town the dulleft performances , for works of wit : while , at the fame time , fome true effort of ...
... most commonly , it was formed on that of half a dozen people in fashion ; who took the lead , and who fometimes . have intruded on the Town the dulleft performances , for works of wit : while , at the fame time , fome true effort of ...
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... most studied and highly finished of all his Poems , was efteemed obfcure , ( a name which , in excefs of modefty , the reader gives to what he does not under ftand ) and but a faint imitation , by fome common hand , of the other three ...
... most studied and highly finished of all his Poems , was efteemed obfcure , ( a name which , in excefs of modefty , the reader gives to what he does not under ftand ) and but a faint imitation , by fome common hand , of the other three ...
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... most poetic Ima- gination could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from England to a friend in Paris . " I intend to fend you two or three poems " of Mr. Pope , the best Poet of England ...
... most poetic Ima- gination could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from England to a friend in Paris . " I intend to fend you two or three poems " of Mr. Pope , the best Poet of England ...
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... most ami- able image of steddy Virtue , mixed with a modest concern for his being forced to undergo the feverest proofs of his love for it ; which was the being thought hardly of by his SOVEREIGN . 370 Yet foft by nature , more a dupe ...
... most ami- able image of steddy Virtue , mixed with a modest concern for his being forced to undergo the feverest proofs of his love for it ; which was the being thought hardly of by his SOVEREIGN . 370 Yet foft by nature , more a dupe ...
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... most hu- morous part of the answer , Peream male , fi non Optimum erat : and has loft the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of dormire . verum neques T. Ter uncti Transnanto , Tiberim , fomno quibus eft E 4 Sat. I. 59 OF HORACE .
... most hu- morous part of the answer , Peream male , fi non Optimum erat : and has loft the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of dormire . verum neques T. Ter uncti Transnanto , Tiberim , fomno quibus eft E 4 Sat. I. 59 OF HORACE .
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Page 11 - 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? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Page 39 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 30 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 12 - Three things another's modest wishes bound, My friendship, and a prologue, and ten pound. Pitholeon sends to me : ' You know his Grace, ' I want a patron ; ask him for a place.
Page 24 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 272 - If of Court life you knew the good. You would leave loneness. ' I said, 'Not alone My loneness is; but Spartan's fashion, To teach by painting drunkards, doth not last Now; Aretine's pictures have made few chaste; No more can princes...
Page 211 - This subtle Thief of life, this paltry Time, What will it leave me, if it snatch my rhyme? If ev'ry wheel of that unweary'd Mill, That turn'd ten thousand verses, now stands still?
Page 39 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 14 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Page 13 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.