The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Poet's dignity and ease , And fee what friends , and read what books I please : Above a Patron , tho ' I condescend Sometimes to call a Minifter my friend . NOTES . 265 VER . 248. help'd to bury ] Mr. Dryden , after having liv'd in ...
... Poet's dignity and ease , And fee what friends , and read what books I please : Above a Patron , tho ' I condescend Sometimes to call a Minifter my friend . NOTES . 265 VER . 248. help'd to bury ] Mr. Dryden , after having liv'd in ...
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... Poet's praise , That , if he pleas'd , he pleas'd by manly ways : That Flatt'ry , ev'n to Kings , he held a shame ... poetic Imagination could give to a great Genius . M. Vol- taire in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from ...
... Poet's praise , That , if he pleas'd , he pleas'd by manly ways : That Flatt'ry , ev'n to Kings , he held a shame ... poetic Imagination could give to a great Genius . M. Vol- taire in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from ...
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... there is nothing strange , that two Brothers , alike in all things else , should have different amusements . VER . 52. As downright Shippen , or as old Montagne : ] And justly CAESAR scorns the Poet's lays , It is 42 Book II . IMITATIONS.
... there is nothing strange , that two Brothers , alike in all things else , should have different amusements . VER . 52. As downright Shippen , or as old Montagne : ] And justly CAESAR scorns the Poet's lays , It is 42 Book II . IMITATIONS.
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Alexander Pope. And justly CAESAR scorns the Poet's lays , It is to History he trufts for Praise . F. Better be Cibber , I'll maintain it still , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abuse the City's best good men in metre ...
Alexander Pope. And justly CAESAR scorns the Poet's lays , It is to History he trufts for Praise . F. Better be Cibber , I'll maintain it still , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abuse the City's best good men in metre ...
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... Poet shall fay Grace . ] The pleasantry of this line consists in the supposed rarity of a Poet's having a table of his own ; or a sense of gratitude for the blessings he receives . But it contains , To Hounslow - heath I point and ...
... Poet shall fay Grace . ] The pleasantry of this line consists in the supposed rarity of a Poet's having a table of his own ; or a sense of gratitude for the blessings he receives . But it contains , To Hounslow - heath I point and ...
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Strona 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Strona 17 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Strona 51 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Strona 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Strona 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Strona 234 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Strona 6 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Strona 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Strona 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Strona 157 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.