The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... Author's want of temper has been much censured ; and I know not whether it will be a sufficient justification to say , that these malevolent scrib- blers , however impotent and insignificant , attacked his person , mo- rals , and family ...
... Author's want of temper has been much censured ; and I know not whether it will be a sufficient justification to say , that these malevolent scrib- blers , however impotent and insignificant , attacked his person , mo- rals , and family ...
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... author's temper . " Ver . 80. That secret to each fool that he's an Ass : ] i . e . that his ears ( his marks of folly ) are visible . W. Ver . 86. the mighty crack : ] A parody on Addison's transla- tion of Horace , Ode iii . b . 3 ...
... author's temper . " Ver . 80. That secret to each fool that he's an Ass : ] i . e . that his ears ( his marks of folly ) are visible . W. Ver . 86. the mighty crack : ] A parody on Addison's transla- tion of Horace , Ode iii . b . 3 ...
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... Author is most happily carried on through a variety of corresponding particulars that exactly hit the nature of the two insects in question . It is not pursued too far , nor jaded out , so as to become quaint and affected , as is the ...
... Author is most happily carried on through a variety of corresponding particulars that exactly hit the nature of the two insects in question . It is not pursued too far , nor jaded out , so as to become quaint and affected , as is the ...
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... , that he had literally followed the example of Virgil , who tells us , Cum canerem reges et prælia , etc. W. All the circumstances of our Author's early life , mentioned in I left no calling for this idle trade , No 18 PROLOGUE.
... , that he had literally followed the example of Virgil , who tells us , Cum canerem reges et prælia , etc. W. All the circumstances of our Author's early life , mentioned in I left no calling for this idle trade , No 18 PROLOGUE.
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... , that he had literally followed the example of Virgil , who tells us , Cum canerem reges et prælia , etc. W. All the circumstances of our Author's early life , mentioned in I left no calling for this idle trade , No 18 PROLOGUE.
... , that he had literally followed the example of Virgil , who tells us , Cum canerem reges et prælia , etc. W. All the circumstances of our Author's early life , mentioned in I left no calling for this idle trade , No 18 PROLOGUE.
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Página 26 - 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 26 - 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 388 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Página 321 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Página 69 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. 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 : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Página 31 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Página 39 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Página 47 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 11 - 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 28 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?