The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... better . 80 Hac ego fi compellar imagine , cuncta refigno ; Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium , nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto . Saepe verecundum laudâfti : Rexque , Paterque Audîsti coram , nec verbo parcius abfens ...
... better . 80 Hac ego fi compellar imagine , cuncta refigno ; Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium , nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto . Saepe verecundum laudâfti : Rexque , Paterque Audîsti coram , nec verbo parcius abfens ...
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... better , we may call , And what , the very best of all ? Our Friend Dan Prior told ( you know ) A Tale extremely à propos : Name a Town Life , and in a trice , He had a Story of two Mice . Once on a time ( fo runs the Fable ) A Country ...
... better , we may call , And what , the very best of all ? Our Friend Dan Prior told ( you know ) A Tale extremely à propos : Name a Town Life , and in a trice , He had a Story of two Mice . Once on a time ( fo runs the Fable ) A Country ...
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... better received , they propofed to do it in the manner of Cervantes ( the original author of this fpecies of fatire ) under the hiftory of fome feigned adventures . They had obferved those abufes ftill kept their ground against all that ...
... better received , they propofed to do it in the manner of Cervantes ( the original author of this fpecies of fatire ) under the hiftory of fome feigned adventures . They had obferved those abufes ftill kept their ground against all that ...
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... better to be childless , than to be- come the Parent of a Fool . His wife mifcarried ; but as the Abortion proved only a female Fœtus , he com- forted himself , that , had it arrived to perfection , it would not have answered his ...
... better to be childless , than to be- come the Parent of a Fool . His wife mifcarried ; but as the Abortion proved only a female Fœtus , he com- forted himself , that , had it arrived to perfection , it would not have answered his ...
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... better to induce him to be fond of learning . He would fre- quently carry him to the Puppet - how of the Creation of the world , where the Child , with exceeding delight , gained a notion of the History of the Bible . His first ...
... better to induce him to be fond of learning . He would fre- quently carry him to the Puppet - how of the Creation of the world , where the Child , with exceeding delight , gained a notion of the History of the Bible . His first ...
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Page 278 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Page 214 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Page 154 - Cuzzona. * fineft fineft thread. There are Amplifiers who can extend half a dozen thin thoughts over a whole Folio...
Page 8 - How think you of our friend the Dean? I wonder what some people mean; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tete-d-tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
Page 291 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Page 280 - Homer, and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Page 298 - Players are just such judges of what is right, as tailors are of what is graceful. And in this view it will be but fair to allow, that most of our author's faults are less to be ascribed to his wrong judgment as a poet, than to his right judgment as a player.
Page 187 - Here therefore, in the name of all our Brethren, let me return our sincere and humble Thanks to the most August Mr.
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.