The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volum 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Side 57
... most of little : Like ftunted hide - bound Trees , that just have got Sufficient fap at once to bear and rot . 10 Now he begs Verfe , and what he gets commends , Not of the Wits his foes , but Fools his friends . 14 So fome coarse ...
... most of little : Like ftunted hide - bound Trees , that just have got Sufficient fap at once to bear and rot . 10 Now he begs Verfe , and what he gets commends , Not of the Wits his foes , but Fools his friends . 14 So fome coarse ...
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Alexander Pope. On a certain LADY at COURT . I Know the thing that's most uncommon ; ( Envy be filent , and attend ! ) I know a reasonable Woman , Handsome and witty , yet a Friend . Not warp'd by Paffion , aw'd by Rumour , Not grave ...
Alexander Pope. On a certain LADY at COURT . I Know the thing that's most uncommon ; ( Envy be filent , and attend ! ) I know a reasonable Woman , Handsome and witty , yet a Friend . Not warp'd by Paffion , aw'd by Rumour , Not grave ...
Side 74
... most lov'd , the Son most dear : Who ne'er knew Joy , but Friendship might divide , Or gave his Father Grief but when he dy❜d . How vain is Reason , Eloquence how weak ! If Pope must tell what HARCOURT cannot speak . Oh let thy once ...
... most lov'd , the Son most dear : Who ne'er knew Joy , but Friendship might divide , Or gave his Father Grief but when he dy❜d . How vain is Reason , Eloquence how weak ! If Pope must tell what HARCOURT cannot speak . Oh let thy once ...
Side 102
... most wonderful , was a thing that feemed a monftrous Fowl , which juft then dropt through the fky - light , near his wife's apart- ment . It had a large body , two little difpropor- tioned wings , a prodigious tail , but no head . its ...
... most wonderful , was a thing that feemed a monftrous Fowl , which juft then dropt through the fky - light , near his wife's apart- ment . It had a large body , two little difpropor- tioned wings , a prodigious tail , but no head . its ...
Side 106
... most ineftimable Relick , he determined to have the in- fant laid therein , and in that manner brought into the Study , to be fhewn to certain learned men of his acquaintance . The regard he had for this Shield , had caufed him formerly ...
... most ineftimable Relick , he determined to have the in- fant laid therein , and in that manner brought into the Study , to be fhewn to certain learned men of his acquaintance . The regard he had for this Shield , had caufed him formerly ...
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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.