The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 3J. Murray, 1881 |
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... pride Lefs pleafing far than Virtue's very Tears : " Go wallow Harpies , and ^ Y 300 3IE Great * * From dirt and fea - weed as proud Venice rofe , Mark by what wretched steps their Glory grows , One Equal course Ꮑ .
... pride Lefs pleafing far than Virtue's very Tears : " Go wallow Harpies , and ^ Y 300 3IE Great * * From dirt and fea - weed as proud Venice rofe , Mark by what wretched steps their Glory grows , One Equal course Ꮑ .
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... virtue , while his enemies on their side were never wearied of pointing out the wide difference between his professions and his practice . The conflict was prolonged beyond his life . Within a very short period after his death ...
... virtue , while his enemies on their side were never wearied of pointing out the wide difference between his professions and his practice . The conflict was prolonged beyond his life . Within a very short period after his death ...
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... Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall , And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall . Ye tinsel Insects ! whom a Court maintains That counts your beauties only by your stains , Spin all your cobwebs o'er the eye of day ! The Muse's wing ...
... Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall , And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall . Ye tinsel Insects ! whom a Court maintains That counts your beauties only by your stains , Spin all your cobwebs o'er the eye of day ! The Muse's wing ...
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... virtue and benevolence were put to the rude test of experience , and any one but himself might have seen that they were not the sterling coin he thought them . But his self - love blinded him to all but the wickedness of his enemies ...
... virtue and benevolence were put to the rude test of experience , and any one but himself might have seen that they were not the sterling coin he thought them . But his self - love blinded him to all but the wickedness of his enemies ...
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... Virtue ! all the past : For thee , fair Virtue , welcome ev'n the last ! Epistle to Arbuthnot , v . 334-359 . ( iii . In the third period of his life we find him under the influence of Bolingbroke . The independent position which the ...
... Virtue ! all the past : For thee , fair Virtue , welcome ev'n the last ! Epistle to Arbuthnot , v . 334-359 . ( iii . In the third period of his life we find him under the influence of Bolingbroke . The independent position which the ...
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Pasajes populares
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.