The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volum 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Side 15
... mind , " To get my Warrant quickly fign'd : " Confider ' tis my first request.- Be fatisfy'd , I'll do my best : -- Then presently he falls to teize , " You may for certain , if you please ; " I doubt not , if his Lordship knew- " And ...
... mind , " To get my Warrant quickly fign'd : " Confider ' tis my first request.- Be fatisfy'd , I'll do my best : -- Then presently he falls to teize , " You may for certain , if you please ; " I doubt not , if his Lordship knew- " And ...
Side 55
... mind , But pitied BELISARIUS old and blind ? Was there a Chief but melted at the Sight ? A common Soldier , who but clubb'd his Mite ? NOTES . 5 VER . 6. But pitied Belifarius , etc. ] Nothing was ever more happily imagined than this ...
... mind , But pitied BELISARIUS old and blind ? Was there a Chief but melted at the Sight ? A common Soldier , who but clubb'd his Mite ? NOTES . 5 VER . 6. But pitied Belifarius , etc. ] Nothing was ever more happily imagined than this ...
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... Mind Sincere , tho ' prudent ; conftant , yet refign'd ; 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 ...
... Mind Sincere , tho ' prudent ; conftant , yet refign'd ; 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 ...
Side 77
... mind ; So firm , yet foft ; fo ftrong , yet so refin'd ; Heav'n , as its pureft gold , by Tortures try'd ; The Saint sustain❜d it , but the Woman dy'd . VII . Oa VII . On the Monument of the Honourable ROBERT DIGBY EPITAPH S. 77 On Mrs ...
... mind ; So firm , yet foft ; fo ftrong , yet so refin'd ; Heav'n , as its pureft gold , by Tortures try'd ; The Saint sustain❜d it , but the Woman dy'd . VII . Oa VII . On the Monument of the Honourable ROBERT DIGBY EPITAPH S. 77 On Mrs ...
Side 78
... mind , Lover of peace , and friend of human kind : Go live for Heaven's Eternal year is thine , Go , and exalt thy Moral to Divine . And thou , bleft Maid ! attendant on his doom , Penfive haft follow'd to the filent tomb , Steer'd the ...
... mind , Lover of peace , and friend of human kind : Go live for Heaven's Eternal year is thine , Go , and exalt thy Moral to Divine . And thou , bleft Maid ! attendant on his doom , Penfive haft follow'd to the filent tomb , Steer'd the ...
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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.