 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...expitefs'd, Is like a clown in regal purple drefs'd : For different ftyles with different fubjecls fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and court. Some * by Old words to fame have made pretence i Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe ! Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle,... | |
 | 1720 - 302 pages
...pompous words exprefs'd, Is like a clown in regal purple drefs'd; difFrent ftyles with difTrent fu'bjedts fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and court. .Some *by old words to fame have made pretence: Ancients in phrafe, mere moderns in their fenfeJ Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, Amaze... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1749 - 110 pages
...like a clown in regal purple drefs'd : For difPrent ftyles with difPrent fubjefts fort, As fcveral garbs with country, town, and court. .Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe : Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, 32(3... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...exprefs'd 320 Is like a clown In regal purple drefs'd : For diff'rent ftyles with difPrentfubjecTis fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe; Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, 326... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 pages
...clown in regal purple drefs'd ; For different ftyles with diff'rent fubjeds fort, 3:2:5; As fev'ral garbs, with country, town, and court. Some * by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe! Such labour'd nothings in fa ftrange a ftyle, Amaze... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...pompous words exprefs'd 3 20 Is like a clown in regal purple drefs'd : For difTrent ftyles with diff Vent fubjefts fort, As feveral garbs with country, town,...court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe ; VER.^II. Fatfe tloqvence 3 like the prifmatic glajs,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...like a clown in regal purple drefs'd; For different ftyles with difPrent fubjefls fort, As fev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe; 325 Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 316 pages
...like a clown in regal purple drefs 'd : For diff'rent ftyles with difFrent fubje&s fort, As fev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe; 325 Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...words exprefs'd 345 Is like a clown in regal purple dreft: For diff'rcnt flyles with diff'rent fubjetfs fort, ; As feveral garbs, with country, town, and...court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrafe, mere moderns in their fenfe ; 325 V£R. 311. Ffllje ffyuencf, like the prifmatic... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For 1liff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere Moderns in their sense; 325 Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,... | |
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... whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words... 
