The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volumen 5T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 páginas |
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... the Burnets , Oldmixons , and Cooks . Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence , While pure description held the place of sense ? 146 Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme , A painted 10 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
... the Burnets , Oldmixons , and Cooks . Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence , While pure description held the place of sense ? 146 Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme , A painted 10 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
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... sense . Commas and points they set exactly right , And ' twere a sin to rob them of their mite ; Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac❜d these ribbalds , From slashing Bentley down to piddling Tibbalds : Each wight who reads not , and but ...
... sense . Commas and points they set exactly right , And ' twere a sin to rob them of their mite ; Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac❜d these ribbalds , From slashing Bentley down to piddling Tibbalds : Each wight who reads not , and but ...
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... sense , now nonsense , leaning , 185 Means not , but blunders round about a meaning ; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad , It is not poetry , but prose run mad : All these my modest Satire bade translate , And own'd that nine such ...
... sense , now nonsense , leaning , 185 Means not , but blunders round about a meaning ; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad , It is not poetry , but prose run mad : All these my modest Satire bade translate , And own'd that nine such ...
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... goose quill ! May ev'ry Bavius have his Bufo still ! So when a statesman wants a day's defence , Or Envy holds a whole week's war with Sense , 250 Or simple Pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce 14 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
... goose quill ! May ev'ry Bavius have his Bufo still ! So when a statesman wants a day's defence , Or Envy holds a whole week's war with Sense , 250 Or simple Pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce 14 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
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... sense of it without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you Friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say , And if he lie not must at least betray ; Who to the Dean and silver ...
... sense of it without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you Friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say , And if he lie not must at least betray ; Who to the Dean and silver ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 12 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 13 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 18 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Página 15 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :; Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Página 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 17 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 32 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Página 8 - Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. *Tis sung, when Midas...
Página 5 - A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross!
Página 11 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.