The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... fhall have this advantage , and honour , on my fide , that whereas , by their proceeding , any abuse may be di- rected at any man , no injury can poffibly be done by mine , fince a nameless Character can never be found out , but by its ...
... fhall have this advantage , and honour , on my fide , that whereas , by their proceeding , any abuse may be di- rected at any man , no injury can poffibly be done by mine , fince a nameless Character can never be found out , but by its ...
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... fhall dread , But all fuch babling blockheads in his stead . 306 Let Sporus tremble - A . What ? that thing of filk , Sporus , that mere white curd of Ass's milk ? Satire or fenfe , alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a ...
... fhall dread , But all fuch babling blockheads in his stead . 306 Let Sporus tremble - A . What ? that thing of filk , Sporus , that mere white curd of Ass's milk ? Satire or fenfe , alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a ...
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... fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me , let the tender office long engage , To rock the cradle of repofing Age , With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath , 418 ...
... fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me , let the tender office long engage , To rock the cradle of repofing Age , With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath , 418 ...
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... fhall close your eyes . 20 * Or , if you needs muft write , write CAESAR'S Praife , b You'll gain at least a Knighthood , or the Bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce , With ARMS , and GEORGE , and BRUNSWICK ...
... fhall close your eyes . 20 * Or , if you needs muft write , write CAESAR'S Praife , b You'll gain at least a Knighthood , or the Bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce , With ARMS , and GEORGE , and BRUNSWICK ...
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... fhall fall ; And grapes , long ling'ring on my only wall , And figs from standard and espalier join ; The dev'l is in you if you cannot dine : t 150 Then chearful healths ( your Miftrefs fhall have place ) And , what's more rare , a ...
... fhall fall ; And grapes , long ling'ring on my only wall , And figs from standard and espalier join ; The dev'l is in you if you cannot dine : t 150 Then chearful healths ( your Miftrefs fhall have place ) And , what's more rare , a ...
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Página 5 - 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?
Página 255 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Página 17 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 24 - Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord.
Página 231 - 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.
Página 5 - 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.
Página 16 - 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...
Página 29 - 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.
Página 155 - 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.
Página 23 - 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. Whether in florid impotence...