The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Honour's ear . I hope it is your Refolution To give me back my Conftitution ! The sprightly Wit , the lively Eye , 45 Th ' engaging Smile , the Gaiety , That laugh'd down many a Summer Sun , And kept you up fo oft till one : And all ...
... Honour's ear . I hope it is your Refolution To give me back my Conftitution ! The sprightly Wit , the lively Eye , 45 Th ' engaging Smile , the Gaiety , That laugh'd down many a Summer Sun , And kept you up fo oft till one : And all ...
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... Honour in a Pound , Hemm'd by a triple Circle round , Chequer'd with Ribbons blue and green : How should I thruft myself between ? 50 Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And smiling , whispers to the next , " I thought the Dean had ...
... Honour in a Pound , Hemm'd by a triple Circle round , Chequer'd with Ribbons blue and green : How should I thruft myself between ? 50 Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And smiling , whispers to the next , " I thought the Dean had ...
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... An'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.
... An'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.
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... honour , and made Fools by fhame . Marriage may all those petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in their place ; Well might you wish for change by those accurst , But the last Tyrant ever proves the worst . Still in ...
... honour , and made Fools by fhame . Marriage may all those petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in their place ; Well might you wish for change by those accurst , But the last Tyrant ever proves the worst . Still in ...
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... Honour unchang'd , a Principle profest , Fix'd to one fide , but mod'rate to the reft : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Just to his Prince , and to his Country true : Fill'd with the Senfe of Age , the Fire of Youth , A Scorn ...
... Honour unchang'd , a Principle profest , Fix'd to one fide , but mod'rate to the reft : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Just to his Prince , and to his Country true : Fill'd with the Senfe of Age , the Fire of Youth , A Scorn ...
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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.