The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Volume 51847 |
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... praise , if Peter but supplies ! And what a solemn face , if he denies ! Grave , as when prisoners shake the head and swear ' Twas only suretyship that brought them there . His office keeps your parchment fates entire , He starves with ...
... praise , if Peter but supplies ! And what a solemn face , if he denies ! Grave , as when prisoners shake the head and swear ' Twas only suretyship that brought them there . His office keeps your parchment fates entire , He starves with ...
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... praise ( as they think ) well Their beauties ; they the men's wits ; both are bought . Why good wits ne'er wear scarlet gowns , I thought This cause , These men , men's wits for speeches buy , And women buy all red which scarlets dye ...
... praise ( as they think ) well Their beauties ; they the men's wits ; both are bought . Why good wits ne'er wear scarlet gowns , I thought This cause , These men , men's wits for speeches buy , And women buy all red which scarlets dye ...
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... praise of Brutus and Cassius , to be burnt . This prohibition naturally increased the circulation of the work . " Libros cremandos , " says Tacitus , censuere patres ; sed manserunt occultati , etenim punitis ingeniis , gliscit ...
... praise of Brutus and Cassius , to be burnt . This prohibition naturally increased the circulation of the work . " Libros cremandos , " says Tacitus , censuere patres ; sed manserunt occultati , etenim punitis ingeniis , gliscit ...
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... praise her , and grave bishops bless ; In golden chains , the willing world she draws , And hers the Gospel is , and hers the laws ; Mounts the tribunal , lifts her scarlet head , And sees pale virtue carted in her stead . Lo ! at the ...
... praise her , and grave bishops bless ; In golden chains , the willing world she draws , And hers the Gospel is , and hers the laws ; Mounts the tribunal , lifts her scarlet head , And sees pale virtue carted in her stead . Lo ! at the ...
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... praise her , and grave bishops bless ; In golden chains , the willing world she draws , And hers the Gospel is , and hers the laws ; Mounts the tribunal , lifts her scarlet head , And sees pale virtue carted in her stead . Lo ! at the ...
... praise her , and grave bishops bless ; In golden chains , the willing world she draws , And hers the Gospel is , and hers the laws ; Mounts the tribunal , lifts her scarlet head , And sees pale virtue carted in her stead . Lo ! at the ...
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Page 249 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Page 64 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 355 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Page 366 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Page 79 - VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Page 357 - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine ; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Page 471 - It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but 'steal wisely' : for art is only like a prudent steward that lives on managing the riches of nature. Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention...
Page 57 - If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins and the...
Page 449 - Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature, it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him.
Page 247 - To which thou may'st add, To see her beauties no man needs to stoop, She has the whole horizon for her hoop. 4. The ANTITHESIS, or SEE-SAW,! whereby contraries and oppositions are balanced in such a way, as to cause a reader to remain suspended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation.