The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted ...
... whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted ...
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... whofe account the Author charges the publication of his first pieces : perfons , with whom he was converfant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for fuch acquaintance . The catalogue might be made yet more ...
... whofe account the Author charges the publication of his first pieces : perfons , with whom he was converfant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for fuch acquaintance . The catalogue might be made yet more ...
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... whofe Wit has lately . licked up , and enrolled fuch a quantity of these Infects , and of tribes fo grotefque and various , as would have puzzled Reaumur to give names to . Two or three of them it may not be amifs to preserve and keep ...
... whofe Wit has lately . licked up , and enrolled fuch a quantity of these Infects , and of tribes fo grotefque and various , as would have puzzled Reaumur to give names to . Two or three of them it may not be amifs to preserve and keep ...
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... whofe fires , & c ] The strokes in this Character are highly finished . Atterbury fo well understood the force of them , that in one of his letters to Mr. Pope he fays , " Since you now know where your ftrength lies , I hope you will ...
... whofe fires , & c ] The strokes in this Character are highly finished . Atterbury fo well understood the force of them , that in one of his letters to Mr. Pope he fays , " Since you now know where your ftrength lies , I hope you will ...
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... whofe fole Heirefs married the Earl of Lindsey - His mother was the daughter of William Turnor , Efq . of York : She had three brothers , one of whom was killed , another died in the fervice of King Charles ; the eldeft following his ...
... whofe fole Heirefs married the Earl of Lindsey - His mother was the daughter of William Turnor , Efq . of York : She had three brothers , one of whom was killed , another died in the fervice of King Charles ; the eldeft following his ...
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Página 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 17 - 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 51 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Página 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Página 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Página 234 - 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 6 - 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 30 - 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 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Página 157 - 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.