The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Volumen 2J. Gladding, 1836 |
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... truth and the sentiment ; and if any thing offensive , it will be only to those I am least sorry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a circumstance but what is true ; but ...
... truth and the sentiment ; and if any thing offensive , it will be only to those I am least sorry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a circumstance but what is true ; but ...
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... truth and likeness . P. ' SHUT , shut the door , good John , ' fatigued , I said , • Tie up the knocker , say I'm sick , I'm dead . ' The dog - star rages ! nay , ' tis past a doubt , All Bedlam , or Parnassus , is let out : Fire in ...
... truth and likeness . P. ' SHUT , shut the door , good John , ' fatigued , I said , • Tie up the knocker , say I'm sick , I'm dead . ' The dog - star rages ! nay , ' tis past a doubt , All Bedlam , or Parnassus , is let out : Fire in ...
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... truth once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas slept , and so may I. You think this cruel : take it for a rule , No creature smarts so little as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , Thou ...
... truth once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas slept , and so may I. You think this cruel : take it for a rule , No creature smarts so little as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , Thou ...
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... truth , and moralized his song ; That not for fame , but virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit : Laugh'd at the loss of ...
... truth , and moralized his song ; That not for fame , but virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit : Laugh'd at the loss of ...
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... Or tired in search of truth , or search of rhyme ; Ill health some just indulgence may engage ; And more the sickness of long life , old age : VOL . II . P For fainting age what cordial drop remains , If our IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 25.
... Or tired in search of truth , or search of rhyme ; Ill health some just indulgence may engage ; And more the sickness of long life , old age : VOL . II . P For fainting age what cordial drop remains , If our IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 25.
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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? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead.
Página 11 - 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 10 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Página 131 - 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 7 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage !' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Página 306 - In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries all.
Página 6 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Página 11 - 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 305 - Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 14 - 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.