The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... never to oblige ye . Scatter your favours on a Fop , Ingratitude's the certain crop ; And ' tis but juft , I'll tell you wherefore , You give the things you never care for . A wife man always is or shou'd Be mighty ready to do good ...
... never to oblige ye . Scatter your favours on a Fop , Ingratitude's the certain crop ; And ' tis but juft , I'll tell you wherefore , You give the things you never care for . A wife man always is or shou'd Be mighty ready to do good ...
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... never faw Come with Petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I would stand their friend . This , humbly offers me his Cafe- That , begs my int'reft for a Place- Inftituunt , ( fic Dis placitum ) tu carminis efto Principium Romae sponsorem me ...
... never faw Come with Petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I would stand their friend . This , humbly offers me his Cafe- That , begs my int'reft for a Place- Inftituunt , ( fic Dis placitum ) tu carminis efto Principium Romae sponsorem me ...
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... never mourn'd before ; The trueft hearts for Voiture heav'd with fighs , Voiture was wept by all the brighteft Eyes : The Smiles and Loves had dy'd in Voiture's death , But that for ever in his lines they breathe . Let the ftri & t life ...
... never mourn'd before ; The trueft hearts for Voiture heav'd with fighs , Voiture was wept by all the brighteft Eyes : The Smiles and Loves had dy'd in Voiture's death , But that for ever in his lines they breathe . Let the ftri & t life ...
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... never heart felt paffion more fincere ; To nobler fentiment to fire the brave , For never BRITON more difdain'd a flave . Peace to thy gentle fhade , and endless rest ; Bleft in thy genius , in thy love too bleft ! And bleft , that ...
... never heart felt paffion more fincere ; To nobler fentiment to fire the brave , For never BRITON more difdain'd a flave . Peace to thy gentle fhade , and endless rest ; Bleft in thy genius , in thy love too bleft ! And bleft , that ...
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... - 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 . I 2 Another Another , on the fame . UNDER this Marble , EPITAPH S .. 59.
... - 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 . I 2 Another Another , on the fame . UNDER this Marble , EPITAPH S .. 59.
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affure againſt alfo almoft alſo ancient Bathos becauſe befides beft beſt caft caufe cauſe converfation Cornelius Crambe defign defire diſcover expreffion fafe faid fame feems fenfe fent feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fincerity firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fure give greateſt happineſs hath himſelf Homer honour Horfes houſe inftance juft juſt Lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs LETTER mafter manner moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature never obferved occafion paffion Paftoral perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem Poet poetry poffible praiſe prefent Profe publiſhed reaſon reft ſay ſeems Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſome ſpeak ſuch tell thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thro tranflation uſe verfes verſes Virgil whofe whoſe WILLIAM TRUMBULL wiſh words write Wycherley yourſelf
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Page 347 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 347 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 176 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
Page 404 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...
Page 250 - 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 57 - OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child : With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted ev'n among the great : 6 A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblam'd thro
Page 201 - 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 347 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body; peace of mind; Quiet by day ; Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix'd; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 277 - Vati noceat . But however this contention might be carried on by the Partizans on either side, I cannot help thinking these two great Poets were good friends, and lived on amicable terms and in offices of society with each other.
Page 268 - I fay of the honour fo many of the Great have done me, while the...