The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volum 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Side 5
... Honour's ear . I hope it is your Resolution To give me back my Constitution ! The sprightly Wit , the lively Eye , Th ' engaging Smile , the Gaiety , 45 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 Resolution To give me back my Constitution ! The sprightly Wit , the lively Eye , Th ' engaging Smile , the Gaiety , 45 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 , 30 35 . 40 45 Hemm'd by a triple Circle round , Chequer'd with Ribbons blue and green : How should I thrust myself between ? 50 Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And smiling , whispers to the next , " I thought ...
... Honour in a Pound , 30 35 . 40 45 Hemm'd by a triple Circle round , Chequer'd with Ribbons blue and green : How should I thrust myself between ? 50 Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And smiling , whispers to the next , " I thought ...
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... no chink . ) " An't please your Honour , quoth the Peasant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! 220 BOOK LIBER O DE I. IV . I AD VENERE M. Sat. VI . OF HORA CE . 25.
... no chink . ) " An't please your Honour , quoth the Peasant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! 220 BOOK LIBER O DE I. IV . I AD VENERE M. Sat. VI . OF HORA CE . 25.
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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 ; .35 Well might you wifh for change by those accurft , But the laft 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 ; .35 Well might you wifh for change by those accurft , But the laft Tyrant ever proves the worst . Still in ...
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... Honour unchang'd , a Principle profeft , Fix'd to one fide , but mod'rate to the rest : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Juft 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 profeft , Fix'd to one fide , but mod'rate to the rest : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Juft 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 325 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Side 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
Side 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Side 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
Side 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Side 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
Side 310 - ... of a trumpet. They roll along as a plentiful river, always in motion, and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of...
Side 289 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.
Side 300 - 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 45 - ... 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.