The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 3J. Murray, 1881 |
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... Once more Swift remonstrated ( December , 1732 ) : " Your poem on the Use of Riches ' has been just printed here , and we have no objection but the obscurity of several passages by our ignorance in facts and persons , which makes us ...
... Once more Swift remonstrated ( December , 1732 ) : " Your poem on the Use of Riches ' has been just printed here , and we have no objection but the obscurity of several passages by our ignorance in facts and persons , which makes us ...
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... once furnished with simple ideas , it can put them together in several compositions , and so make variety of complex ideas , without examining whether they exist so to- gether in nature , and hence I think it is that these ideas are ...
... once furnished with simple ideas , it can put them together in several compositions , and so make variety of complex ideas , without examining whether they exist so to- gether in nature , and hence I think it is that these ideas are ...
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... once explore , That instant ' tis his principle no more . Like following life through creatures you dissect , You lose it in the moment you detect . Yet more ; the diff'rence is as great between The optics seeing , as the objects seen ...
... once explore , That instant ' tis his principle no more . Like following life through creatures you dissect , You lose it in the moment you detect . Yet more ; the diff'rence is as great between The optics seeing , as the objects seen ...
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... of St. Quentin or of Gravelines . 4 " They choose some general air , and according to that interpret all the actions of a man , of which if Must then at once ( the character to save ) 62 293 [ EPISTLE I. MORAL ESSAYS .
... of St. Quentin or of Gravelines . 4 " They choose some general air , and according to that interpret all the actions of a man , of which if Must then at once ( the character to save ) 62 293 [ EPISTLE I. MORAL ESSAYS .
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Alexander Pope Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope. Must then at once ( the character to save ) , The plain rough hero turn a crafty knave ? Alas ! in truth the man but changed his mind , Perhaps was sick , in love , or had not dined ...
Alexander Pope Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope. Must then at once ( the character to save ) , The plain rough hero turn a crafty knave ? Alas ! in truth the man but changed his mind , Perhaps was sick , in love , or had not dined ...
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Página 381 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Página 252 - View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, 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 533 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Página 118 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Página 150 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends.
Página 472 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field? Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions and his own? Names which I long have...
Página 530 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 239 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song...
Página 176 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página 91 - Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most women have no characters at all." Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguished by black, brown, or fair.