The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 3J. Murray, 1881 - 10 páginas |
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... Fools rush into my head , and so I write . Imitation of Horace , Sat. i . 2 , 14 . At another moment he protests that he resorts to it only in self - defence : Peace is my dear delight , not Fleury's more , But touch me , and no ...
... Fools rush into my head , and so I write . Imitation of Horace , Sat. i . 2 , 14 . At another moment he protests that he resorts to it only in self - defence : Peace is my dear delight , not Fleury's more , But touch me , and no ...
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... Fools , ought never to be made so , in complaisance to those who are . Accordingly we find that in all ages , all vain pretenders , were they ever so poor or ever so dull , have been constantly the topics of the most candid satirists ...
... Fools , ought never to be made so , in complaisance to those who are . Accordingly we find that in all ages , all vain pretenders , were they ever so poor or ever so dull , have been constantly the topics of the most candid satirists ...
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... fools , ' were made so by believing in their pretensions ? Of the whole crew , James Moore Smyth was the only one who had an entrance into fashionable society , and he was of little consideration there ; while the recognized supremacy ...
... fools , ' were made so by believing in their pretensions ? Of the whole crew , James Moore Smyth was the only one who had an entrance into fashionable society , and he was of little consideration there ; while the recognized supremacy ...
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... fool , Not lucre's madman , not ambition's tool , Not proud nor servile ; be one poet's praise , That if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways . That flattery , even to kings , he held a shame , And thought a lie in verse or prose the ...
... fool , Not lucre's madman , not ambition's tool , Not proud nor servile ; be one poet's praise , That if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways . That flattery , even to kings , he held a shame , And thought a lie in verse or prose the ...
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... of the best judges of his own time . Bolingbroke and Swift , Mr. Stephen allows , were no fools ; it might , indeed , be added that they were at least as well qualified as any man now alive to judge of 38 MORAL ESSAYS .
... of the best judges of his own time . Bolingbroke and Swift , Mr. Stephen allows , were no fools ; it might , indeed , be added that they were at least as well qualified as any man now alive to judge of 38 MORAL ESSAYS .
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Página 254 - 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 537 - 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 151 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter...
Página 119 - 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 255 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — 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...
Página 353 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool. But let them own, that greater faults than we They had, and greater virtues, I '11 agree.
Página 69 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Página 263 - 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.
Página 296 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes 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...
Página 178 - 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.