The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... please , Leave me but Liberty and Ease . ' Twas what I faid to Craggs and Child , Who prais'd my Modesty , and smil'd . Give me , I cry'd , ( enough for me ) My Bread , and Independency ! So bought an Annual Rent or two , And liv'd juft ...
... please , Leave me but Liberty and Ease . ' Twas what I faid to Craggs and Child , Who prais'd my Modesty , and smil'd . Give me , I cry'd , ( enough for me ) My Bread , and Independency ! So bought an Annual Rent or two , And liv'd juft ...
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... please ; " I doubt not , if his Lordship knew- " And , Mr. Dean , one word from you- and more , ' Tis ( let me fee ) three years ( October next it will be four ) Since HARLEY bid me firft attend , And chofe me for an humble friend ...
... please ; " I doubt not , if his Lordship knew- " And , Mr. Dean , one word from you- and more , ' Tis ( let me fee ) three years ( October next it will be four ) Since HARLEY bid me firft attend , And chofe me for an humble friend ...
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... please , And ev❜n the very Dogs at ease ! 140 Here no man prates of idle things , How this or that Italian fings , A Neighbour's Madness , or his Spouse's , Or what's in either of the Houses : But something much more our concern , 145 ...
... please , And ev❜n the very Dogs at ease ! 140 Here no man prates of idle things , How this or that Italian fings , A Neighbour's Madness , or his Spouse's , Or what's in either of the Houses : But something much more our concern , 145 ...
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... please your Honour , quoth the Peafant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! 210 215 220 BOOK LIBER IV . OD E I. I ' ADVENERE M. Sat. VI . OF HORACE . 25.
... please your Honour , quoth the Peafant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! 210 215 220 BOOK LIBER IV . OD E I. I ' ADVENERE M. Sat. VI . OF HORACE . 25.
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... be A long , exact , and serious Comedy ; In ev'ry scene fome Moral let it teach , And , if it can , at once both please and preach . 6 * 15 20 Let Let mine , an innocent gay farce appear , And To Mifs BLOUNT, with the works of VOITURE.
... be A long , exact , and serious Comedy ; In ev'ry scene fome Moral let it teach , And , if it can , at once both please and preach . 6 * 15 20 Let Let mine , an innocent gay farce appear , And To Mifs BLOUNT, with the works of VOITURE.
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Page 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Page 81 - 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 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Page 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Page 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Page 284 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Page 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Page 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Page 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Page 331 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...