The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volumen4B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 páginas |
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... cause of revela- tion against the attacks of Bolingbroke and Chefterfield . The strokes of fatire , in many parts of this Epiftle , have such an extraordinary energy and poignancy , that our Author's want of temper has been much ...
... cause of revela- tion against the attacks of Bolingbroke and Chefterfield . The strokes of fatire , in many parts of this Epiftle , have such an extraordinary energy and poignancy , that our Author's want of temper has been much ...
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... Obfervations on Shakespeare . My good Friend , " I am much more rejoiced to hear you have found the cause of your disease , than to find you differ from me in my opinion about Horace . The things , we know , are neither rich nor 26 ...
... Obfervations on Shakespeare . My good Friend , " I am much more rejoiced to hear you have found the cause of your disease , than to find you differ from me in my opinion about Horace . The things , we know , are neither rich nor 26 ...
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... cause of Swift's rooted averfion to Dryden , mentioned above . Baucis and Philemon was fo much and so often altered , at the inftigation of Addison , who mentioned this circumstance to my father at Magdalen College , that not above ...
... cause of Swift's rooted averfion to Dryden , mentioned above . Baucis and Philemon was fo much and so often altered , at the inftigation of Addison , who mentioned this circumstance to my father at Magdalen College , that not above ...
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... cause , Lights of the Church , or Guardians of the Laws ? Could penfion'd Boileau lafh in honest strain Flatt'rers and Bigots e'en in Louis ' reign ? Could Laureate Dryden Pimp and Fry'r engage , Yet neither Charles nor James be in a ...
... cause , Lights of the Church , or Guardians of the Laws ? Could penfion'd Boileau lafh in honest strain Flatt'rers and Bigots e'en in Louis ' reign ? Could Laureate Dryden Pimp and Fry'r engage , Yet neither Charles nor James be in a ...
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... that fupply made him very prudently decline the thoughts of an Equipage ; which it was much better never to set up , than not properly to fupport . From Spence . W. I will , or perish in the gen'rous cause : 76 BOOK II . IMITATIONS.
... that fupply made him very prudently decline the thoughts of an Equipage ; which it was much better never to set up , than not properly to fupport . From Spence . W. I will , or perish in the gen'rous cause : 76 BOOK II . IMITATIONS.
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Página 337 - 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 touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Página 7 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay '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.
Página 54 - 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 ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Página 316 - Hear her black trumpet through the land proclaim, That not to be corrupted is the shame. In soldier, churchman, patriot, man in power, Tis avarice all, ambition is no more! See all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves! The wit of cheats, the courage of a...
Página 77 - 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 79 - There my Retreat, the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of War, and Statesmen out of Place. There ST JOHN mingles with my friendly Bowl, The Feast of Reason, and the Flow of Soul. And HE, whose Lightning pierc'd th...
Página 207 - 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 379 - ... of both Homer's poems into one, which is yet but a fourth part as large as his. The other Epic Poets have...
Página 398 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Página 50 - If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit; This dreaded...