The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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Page 59
... in Westminster - Abbey . HEROES and KINGS ! your distance keep ; In peace let one poor Poet sleep , Who never flatter'd Folks like you : Let Horace blush , and Virgil too . Another , on the Same . UNDER this Marble , D 6 EPITAPH S. 59 :
... in Westminster - Abbey . HEROES and KINGS ! your distance keep ; In peace let one poor Poet sleep , Who never flatter'd Folks like you : Let Horace blush , and Virgil too . Another , on the Same . UNDER this Marble , D 6 EPITAPH S. 59 :
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... was armed with the Art Military , his belly was filled with Phyfic , his wings wese the wings of Quarleş + Plato , Lucan , & c . * Virgil's Laurel . Donat . and Withers , the several Nodes of his voluminous tail 74 OF MEMOIRS.
... was armed with the Art Military , his belly was filled with Phyfic , his wings wese the wings of Quarleş + Plato , Lucan , & c . * Virgil's Laurel . Donat . and Withers , the several Nodes of his voluminous tail 74 OF MEMOIRS.
Page 112
... Virgil , Horace , and Terence ; concluding , that , if the moft correct authors could be fo ferved , with any reputation to the Critick , the amend- ment and alteration of all the reft would eafily follow ; whereby a new , a vaft , nay ...
... Virgil , Horace , and Terence ; concluding , that , if the moft correct authors could be fo ferved , with any reputation to the Critick , the amend- ment and alteration of all the reft would eafily follow ; whereby a new , a vaft , nay ...
Page 159
... Virgil is faid to have read Ennius , out of his dunghill to draw gold , fo may our Author read Shakespeare , Milton , and Dryden , for the contrary end , to bury their gold in his own dunghill . A true Genius , when he finds any thing ...
... Virgil is faid to have read Ennius , out of his dunghill to draw gold , fo may our Author read Shakespeare , Milton , and Dryden , for the contrary end , to bury their gold in his own dunghill . A true Genius , when he finds any thing ...
Page 189
... Virgil , and change the names as occafion ferves . For the MACHINES . Take of Deities , male and female , as many as you can use : Separate them into two equal parts , and keep Jupiter in the middle : Let Juno put him in Of the ART OF ...
... Virgil , and change the names as occafion ferves . For the MACHINES . Take of Deities , male and female , as many as you can use : Separate them into two equal parts , and keep Jupiter in the middle : Let Juno put him in Of the ART OF ...
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Page 52 - 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.
Page 281 - ... enchantment. Homer not only appears the inventor of poetry, but excels all the inventors of other arts in this, that he has swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.