The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... give the things you never care for . A wife man always is or shou'd Be mighty ready to do good ; But makes a diff'rence in his thought Betwixt a Guinea and a Groat . Now this I'll fay , you'll find in me A fafe Companion , and a free ...
... give the things you never care for . A wife man always is or shou'd Be mighty ready to do good ; But makes a diff'rence in his thought Betwixt a Guinea and a Groat . Now this I'll fay , you'll find in me A fafe Companion , and a free ...
Side 7
... Give me , I cry'd , ( enough for me ) My Bread , and Independency ! So bought an Annual Rent or two , And liv'd just as you fee I do ; Near fifty , and without a Wife , I trust that finking Fund , my Life . Can I retrench ? Yes , mighty ...
... Give me , I cry'd , ( enough for me ) My Bread , and Independency ! So bought an Annual Rent or two , And liv'd just as you fee I do ; Near fifty , and without a Wife , I trust that finking Fund , my Life . Can I retrench ? Yes , mighty ...
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... 't please your Honour , quoth the Peasant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , 220 " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! BOOK LIBER IV . O DE I. AD VENERE M. NTERMISSA Sat. VI . 25 OF HORAC E.
... 't please your Honour , quoth the Peasant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , 220 " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! BOOK LIBER IV . O DE I. AD VENERE M. NTERMISSA Sat. VI . 25 OF HORAC E.
Side 45
... gives a smacking bufs , and cries , -No words ! Or with his hound comes hallowing from the stable , Makes love with ... give one flirt and all the vifion flies . Thus vanish fceptres , coronets , and balls , And leave you in lone woods ...
... gives a smacking bufs , and cries , -No words ! Or with his hound comes hallowing from the stable , Makes love with ... give one flirt and all the vifion flies . Thus vanish fceptres , coronets , and balls , And leave you in lone woods ...
Side 60
... give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever blooming , Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks , See my weary Days confuming , All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks . III . Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping , Mourn'd Adonis , darling Youth : Him the ...
... give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever blooming , Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks , See my weary Days confuming , All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks . III . Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping , Mourn'd Adonis , darling Youth : Him the ...
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Side 328 - We shall hereby extenuate many faults which are his, and clear him from the imputation of many which are not...
Side 299 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Side 323 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Side 299 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Side 44 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
Side 307 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Side 346 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...
Side 339 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Side 12 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Side 293 - ... masters, being wholly unconfined, and painting at pleasure, may be thought to have given a full idea of what they esteemed most excellent in this way. These (one may observe) consist entirely of the useful part of horticulture, fruit-trees, herbs, water, &c.