The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Volumen 3C. Cooke, 1796 |
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... Critics in wit or life are hard to please ; Few write to thofe , and none can live to thefe . Too much your fex is by their forms confin'd , Severe to all , but moft to womanki.l : Cuftom , grown blind with age , must be your guide ...
... Critics in wit or life are hard to please ; Few write to thofe , and none can live to thefe . Too much your fex is by their forms confin'd , Severe to all , but moft to womanki.l : Cuftom , grown blind with age , must be your guide ...
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... critics now my verse affail , Let Dennis write , and nameless numbers rail ; This more than pays whe years of thanklefs pain , Time , health , and fortune , are not loft in vain . Sheffield approves , confenting Phoebus bends , And I ...
... critics now my verse affail , Let Dennis write , and nameless numbers rail ; This more than pays whe years of thanklefs pain , Time , health , and fortune , are not loft in vain . Sheffield approves , confenting Phoebus bends , And I ...
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... critic of diftinguish'd rage , If there's a fenior who contemns this age , Let him to - night his just affistance lend , 16 20 And be the critic's , Briton's , old man's , friend . 24 WHE MACER , A CHARACTER . HEN fimple Macer , now of ...
... critic of diftinguish'd rage , If there's a fenior who contemns this age , Let him to - night his just affistance lend , 16 20 And be the critic's , Briton's , old man's , friend . 24 WHE MACER , A CHARACTER . HEN fimple Macer , now of ...
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... critic of his age and country , admirable for his talents , and yet , perhaps , more admirable for his judgment in ... Criticism , in French verfe , by General Hamilton ; the fame , in verfe alfo , by Monfieur Roboton , counfellor and ...
... critic of his age and country , admirable for his talents , and yet , perhaps , more admirable for his judgment in ... Criticism , in French verfe , by General Hamilton ; the fame , in verfe alfo , by Monfieur Roboton , counfellor and ...
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... critics and judges will let every ignorant pretender to fcribbling pafs on the world . THEOBALD , Letter to MIST , June 22 , 1728 . Attacks may be levelled either againft failures in genius , or against the pretensions of writing ...
... critics and judges will let every ignorant pretender to fcribbling pafs on the world . THEOBALD , Letter to MIST , June 22 , 1728 . Attacks may be levelled either againft failures in genius , or against the pretensions of writing ...
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Página 8 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Página 35 - In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw, Entangle Justice in her net of law, And right, too rigid, harden into wrong; Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong.
Página 36 - Th' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all Nature's laws, T" invert the world, and counterwork its cause ? Force first made conquest, and that conquest law...
Página 30 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place, Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Página 33 - Who calls the council, states the certain day ? Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
Página 27 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Página 25 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Página 27 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Página 65 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 190 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.