The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volumen4B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 páginas |
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... Morals , and Family , whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requifite . Being divided between the neceffity to say something of myself , and my own lazinefs to undertake fo auk- ward a task , I thought it the ...
... Morals , and Family , whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requifite . Being divided between the neceffity to say something of myself , and my own lazinefs to undertake fo auk- ward a task , I thought it the ...
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... moral character , and who ( in his own cafe ) had two years before exprefsly difapproved of a per- fonal abuse of Mr. Dennis . The perfon , indeed , from whom Mr. Pope feems to have received this anecdote , about the time of his writing ...
... moral character , and who ( in his own cafe ) had two years before exprefsly difapproved of a per- fonal abuse of Mr. Dennis . The perfon , indeed , from whom Mr. Pope feems to have received this anecdote , about the time of his writing ...
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... moral good effects . One undefigned and accidental mifchief attended its fuccefs : it was the parent of that most monstrous of all dramatic abfurdities , the Comic Opera . The friendship of two fuch excellent perfonages as the Duke and ...
... moral good effects . One undefigned and accidental mifchief attended its fuccefs : it was the parent of that most monstrous of all dramatic abfurdities , the Comic Opera . The friendship of two fuch excellent perfonages as the Duke and ...
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... morality on the principles or practice of men in business . NOTES . VER . 261. Oh let me live ] In the first edition ; Give me on Thames's banks , in honest ease , To see what friends , or read what books I please . VER . 265. Tho ' I ...
... morality on the principles or practice of men in business . NOTES . VER . 261. Oh let me live ] In the first edition ; Give me on Thames's banks , in honest ease , To see what friends , or read what books I please . VER . 265. Tho ' I ...
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... moral title , to pafs for any man's but his . So the Effay on Human Life , the Effay on Reason , and many others of a worse tendency , were very liberally beftowed upon him . W.- There are many admirable paffages in Harte's Effay on ...
... moral title , to pafs for any man's but his . So the Effay on Human Life , the Effay on Reason , and many others of a worse tendency , were very liberally beftowed upon him . W.- There are many admirable paffages in Harte's Effay on ...
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Página 337 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Página 7 - 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 54 - 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 a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Página 316 - Hear her black trumpet through the land proclaim, That not to be corrupted is the shame. In soldier, churchman, patriot, man in power, Tis avarice all, ambition is no more! See all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves! The wit of cheats, the courage of a...
Página 77 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Página 79 - 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 207 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Página 379 - ... of both Homer's poems into one, which is yet but a fourth part as large as his. The other Epic Poets have...
Página 398 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Página 50 - If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit; This dreaded...