The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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Page 60
... Virtue fill'd the space between ; Proved , by the ends of being , to have been . When Hopkins dies , a thousand lights attend The wretch , who living saved a candle's end ; Shouldering God's altar a vile image stands , Belies his ...
... Virtue fill'd the space between ; Proved , by the ends of being , to have been . When Hopkins dies , a thousand lights attend The wretch , who living saved a candle's end ; Shouldering God's altar a vile image stands , Belies his ...
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... Virtue ! and Wealth ! what are ye but a name ! " Say , for such worth are other worlds prepared ? Or are they both in this their own reward ? 325 330 335 A knotty point ! to which we now proceed . But you are tired - I'll tell a tale ...
... Virtue ! and Wealth ! what are ye but a name ! " Say , for such worth are other worlds prepared ? Or are they both in this their own reward ? 325 330 335 A knotty point ! to which we now proceed . But you are tired - I'll tell a tale ...
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... virtues which made him one of the most amiable , as he is one of the most fortunate men of his age , had opened to him in vision , that , when in the fourth generation , the third Prince of the house of Brunswick had sat twelve years on ...
... virtues which made him one of the most amiable , as he is one of the most fortunate men of his age , had opened to him in vision , that , when in the fourth generation , the third Prince of the house of Brunswick had sat twelve years on ...
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... virtue . But when Alcibiades turns chemist , when he is a real bubble and a visionary miser , when ambition is but a frolic , when the worst designs are for the foolishest ends , contempt extinguishes all reflections on his character ...
... virtue . But when Alcibiades turns chemist , when he is a real bubble and a visionary miser , when ambition is but a frolic , when the worst designs are for the foolishest ends , contempt extinguishes all reflections on his character ...
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... virtue , and public spirit , became extinct . BUBB DODINGTON , LORD MELCOMBE . Ver . 20. Bids Bubo build . ] In 1720 , George Bubb ( the son of an apothe cary at Carlisle ) fell heir to a large estate in Dorsetshire , which had belonged ...
... virtue , and public spirit , became extinct . BUBB DODINGTON , LORD MELCOMBE . Ver . 20. Bids Bubo build . ] In 1720 , George Bubb ( the son of an apothe cary at Carlisle ) fell heir to a large estate in Dorsetshire , which had belonged ...
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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...