The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... laft hand to this Epiftle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am most defirous to please , the Truth and the Sen- timent ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to { ( 4 ) those I am leaft forry to * B 2 ...
... laft hand to this Epiftle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am most defirous to please , the Truth and the Sen- timent ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to { ( 4 ) those I am leaft forry to * B 2 ...
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... laft , but in unwilling ears , 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years . " Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro ' the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ...
... laft , but in unwilling ears , 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years . " Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro ' the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ...
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... laft he whispers , " Do ; and we go fnacks . " Glad of a quarrel , ftrait I clap the door , Sir , let me fee your works and you no more . ' Tis fung , when Midas ' Ears began to spring , ( Midas , a facred person and a King ) His very ...
... laft he whispers , " Do ; and we go fnacks . " Glad of a quarrel , ftrait I clap the door , Sir , let me fee your works and you no more . ' Tis fung , when Midas ' Ears began to spring , ( Midas , a facred person and a King ) His very ...
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... laft ! A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry ftate : Alike my scorn , if he fucceed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling fcribler , or a hireling peer ...
... laft ! A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry ftate : Alike my scorn , if he fucceed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling fcribler , or a hireling peer ...
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... Laft Will of Dr. Tindal , in the Grubftreet Journal ; a Paper wherein he never had the leaft hand , direction , or fupervifal , nor the least knowledge of its Author . P. VER . 379. except his Will ] Alluding to Tindal's Will : by which ...
... Laft Will of Dr. Tindal , in the Grubftreet Journal ; a Paper wherein he never had the leaft hand , direction , or fupervifal , nor the least knowledge of its Author . P. VER . 379. except his Will ] Alluding to Tindal's Will : by which ...
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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...