 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...in vain. EPIGRAM ON MRS. TOFTS, A HANDSOME WOMAN WITH A FINE VOICE, BUT VERY COVETOUS AND PROUD 1 . So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS 1 . Where still so much is said; One half will never be believed,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...Wrapp'd up in majesty divine, Does he regard on what we dine ? THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe 's balanced, neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales. ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS. ELEGY ON THE SUPPOSED DEATH OF PARTRIDGE THE ALMANACK-MAKER. WELL, 'tis as Bickerstaff... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...I know the place : 'Tis where God sent some that adore him, And whither Enoch went before him. TOL. vi. 2 H EPIGRAM, ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI....of the scales. APPLIED TO FC HERE Francis Chartres lies*—be civil! The rest God knows—perhaps the Devil. • Thus applied by Mr. Pope: " Here lies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...a fine Voice, bat very covetous and proud.§ So bright ie thy beauty, so charming thy song, Ae bad drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along; But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, [died. That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have * Quid voveat dulcI uutricula majue alumno,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...church and state. EPIGRAM ON MRS. TOFTS, 4 hantoom,. Woman Wlth a fine Voice, but mry covetous andprwd. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus alongBut such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride That the beasts must have starved, and the poet... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pages
...your face ON MRS. TOFTS, A handsome Woman with a fine Voice, but very Covetout and 1'roud. BY POPE. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starv'd, and the poet have died. THE HAPPY LIFE OF A COUNTRY PARSON. BY POPE. Parson, these things... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...is thy beauty, so charming thy song, AB had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along Bat inch M ڄ "; 1830 J. J. Woodward"# Pope Alexander" Alexander Pope( EPIGRAM, On one who made long Epilaphi.U FRIEXD, for your epitaphs I'm grieved; Where still so much... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 pages
...difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee ! ON MRS. TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe 's balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing 's left in either of the scales. APPLIED TO FC HEBE... | |
 | Joe Miller - English wit and humor - 1836 - 266 pages
...world, become each other's bail. On a handsome Woman, with a fine voice, but very covetous and proud. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. Veaus mistaken. BY MR. PRIOR. When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown, Surprised, the goddess took... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...very covetous and proitd* So hright is thy heauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn hoth the heasts and their Orpheus along ; But such is thy avarice and such is thy pride, That the heasts must have starved, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM, On ore* who made long Epitaphs.t FRIEND,... | |
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