The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... in happier Day Immortal Heirs of universal Praise ! Oh may some . Spark of your celestial Fire The last , the meanest of your Sons inspire Essay on fr THE WORKS O F Alexander Pope Efq . VOLUME VI Vol . VI . facing p .
... in happier Day Immortal Heirs of universal Praise ! Oh may some . Spark of your celestial Fire The last , the meanest of your Sons inspire Essay on fr THE WORKS O F Alexander Pope Efq . VOLUME VI Vol . VI . facing p .
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... Sons of frozen verse : How chang'd from him who made the boxes groan , And fhook the ftage with Thunders all his own ! Stood up to dash each vain PRETENDER's hope , Maul the French Tyrant , or pull down the POPE ! If there's a Briton ...
... Sons of frozen verse : How chang'd from him who made the boxes groan , And fhook the ftage with Thunders all his own ! Stood up to dash each vain PRETENDER's hope , Maul the French Tyrant , or pull down the POPE ! If there's a Briton ...
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... Son : Each Widow afks it for the best of Men ; For him the weeps , for him the weds again . Yet when thefe elegiac movements came freely from the heart , he mourns in fuch strains as fhew he was equally a mafter of this kind of ...
... Son : Each Widow afks it for the best of Men ; For him the weeps , for him the weds again . Yet when thefe elegiac movements came freely from the heart , he mourns in fuch strains as fhew he was equally a mafter of this kind of ...
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... Son most dear : Who ne'er knew Joy , but Friendship might divide , Or gave his Father Grief but when he dy❜d . How vain is Reason , Eloquence how weak ! If Pope must tell what HARCOURT cannot speak . Oh let thy once - lov'd Friend ...
... Son most dear : Who ne'er knew Joy , but Friendship might divide , Or gave his Father Grief but when he dy❜d . How vain is Reason , Eloquence how weak ! If Pope must tell what HARCOURT cannot speak . Oh let thy once - lov'd Friend ...
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... Son's Monitor . This is all we can find relating to Martinus , while he was in his Mother's womb , excepting that he was entertained there with a Concert of Mufick once in twenty four hours , according to the Custom of the Magi and that ...
... Son's Monitor . This is all we can find relating to Martinus , while he was in his Mother's womb , excepting that he was entertained there with a Concert of Mufick once in twenty four hours , according to the Custom of the Magi and that ...
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Page 325 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Page 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
Page 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Page 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
Page 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Page 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
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Page 45 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.