The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volumen6J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... ' extremes of wit and meanness join'd in thee ! Flames that could mount , and gain their kindred skies , Low creeping in the putrid sink of vice ; 435 A Muse whom wisdom woo'd , but woo'd in vain PART III . 21 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... ' extremes of wit and meanness join'd in thee ! Flames that could mount , and gain their kindred skies , Low creeping in the putrid sink of vice ; 435 A Muse whom wisdom woo'd , but woo'd in vain PART III . 21 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... thee with kind contention strove , For thee the Graces left th ' IDALIAN grove ; With watchful fondness o'er thy cradle hung , Attuned thy voice , and form'd thy infant tongue . Next , to her Bard majestic Wisdom came ; The Bard ...
... thee with kind contention strove , For thee the Graces left th ' IDALIAN grove ; With watchful fondness o'er thy cradle hung , Attuned thy voice , and form'd thy infant tongue . Next , to her Bard majestic Wisdom came ; The Bard ...
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... thee , fair Virtue ! all the past ; For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome even the last . " But here again his friend interrupts the strains of his divine en- thusiasm , and desires him to clear up one objection made to his conduct at court ...
... thee , fair Virtue ! all the past ; For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome even the last . " But here again his friend interrupts the strains of his divine en- thusiasm , and desires him to clear up one objection made to his conduct at court ...
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... thee break , Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack : Pit , box , and gallery in convulsions hurl'd , Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world . NOTES . Ver . 72. queen , ] The story is told , by some , of his barber , but by ...
... thee break , Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack : Pit , box , and gallery in convulsions hurl'd , Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world . NOTES . Ver . 72. queen , ] The story is told , by some , of his barber , but by ...
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... thee , fair Virtue , all the past ; For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome even the last ! A. But why insult the poor , affront the great ? P. A knave's a knave to me , in every state ; NOTES . Ver . 351. Th ' imputed trash , ] Such as ...
... thee , fair Virtue , all the past ; For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome even the last ! A. But why insult the poor , affront the great ? P. A knave's a knave to me , in every state ; NOTES . Ver . 351. Th ' imputed trash , ] Such as ...
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Addison admirable Alluding atque Augustus bard Ben Jonson Bishop Boileau Bowles called character Cicero corruption court critics Cùm Dialogue divine Donne Dryden Dunciad Earl edition Elijah Fenton Epistle father flatterers folly fool genius give grace heart Hermolaus Barbarus honest honour Horace humour imitation king Lady laugh learned letter libels lines live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Fanny Lucilius malè manner mihi minister moral Muse nature ne'er never NOTES numbers nunc o'er original passage Persius person Pindar pleased poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's praise quæ Queen Quid quod racter rage rhyme ridicule satire says sense shew Sir Robert Walpole smile spirit style Swift taste tell thee thing thought tibi translation truth verse vice virtue virtue's Voltaire Warburton Warton Whig words writ write wrote
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Página 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Página 40 - 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. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? 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 36 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Página 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Página 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Página 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Página 63 - 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, Alike...
Página 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Página 388 - 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. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.