The Works of Alexander Pope, Volum 6J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... never to oblige ye . Scatter your Favours on a Fop , Ingratitude's the certain crop ; And ' tis but just , I'll tell ye wherefore , You give the things you never care for . A wise man always is or should Be mighty ready to do good : But ...
... never to oblige ye . Scatter your Favours on a Fop , Ingratitude's the certain crop ; And ' tis but just , I'll tell ye wherefore , You give the things you never care for . A wise man always is or should Be mighty ready to do good : But ...
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... never saw Come with Petitions fairly penn'd , Desiring I would stand their Friend . This , humbly offers me his Case- 65 . That , begs my int'rest for a Place— A hundred other Men's affairs , Like bees , are humming in my ears . " To ...
... never saw Come with Petitions fairly penn'd , Desiring I would stand their Friend . This , humbly offers me his Case- 65 . That , begs my int'rest for a Place— A hundred other Men's affairs , Like bees , are humming in my ears . " To ...
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... never touch a dame of quality . " To P - 1 - r's bed no actress comes amiss , He courts the whole persona dramatis : He too can say , " With wives I never sin : ' But singing - girls and mimics draw him in . Sure , worthy Sir , the diff ...
... never touch a dame of quality . " To P - 1 - r's bed no actress comes amiss , He courts the whole persona dramatis : He too can say , " With wives I never sin : ' But singing - girls and mimics draw him in . Sure , worthy Sir , the diff ...
Side 45
... Never , ah ! never ! kiss thy neighbour's wife . NOTES . * The Dutchess of Cleveland was said to have been in love with Jacob Hall , the famous rope - dancer , and she gave him a salary . In these lines Pope alludes to this connexion ...
... Never , ah ! never ! kiss thy neighbour's wife . NOTES . * The Dutchess of Cleveland was said to have been in love with Jacob Hall , the famous rope - dancer , and she gave him a salary . In these lines Pope alludes to this connexion ...
Side 47
... never for the service chose , But ey'd him round , and stript off all the clothes ; For well they knew , proud trappings serve to hide A heavy chest , thick neck , or heavy side . But fools are ready chaps , agog to buy , Let but a ...
... never for the service chose , But ey'd him round , and stript off all the clothes ; For well they knew , proud trappings serve to hide A heavy chest , thick neck , or heavy side . But fools are ready chaps , agog to buy , Let but a ...
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Side 377 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Side 369 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Side 364 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Side 376 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Side 372 - Her great great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears. ) "Boast not my fall
Side 365 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Side 257 - THE DESCRIPTIONS. For a tempest.—" Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightning, and of thunder, the loudest you can, quantum sufficit.
Side 19 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Side 386 - He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Side 304 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.