The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas flept , and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature fmarts fo little as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , 85 Thou ...
... once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas flept , and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature fmarts fo little as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , 85 Thou ...
Strona 24
... Once , and but once , his heedlefs youth was bit , And lik'd that dang'rous thing , a female wit : Safe as he thought , tho ' all the prudent chid ; He writ no Libels , but my Lady did : Great odds in am'rous or poetic game , Where ...
... Once , and but once , his heedlefs youth was bit , And lik'd that dang'rous thing , a female wit : Safe as he thought , tho ' all the prudent chid ; He writ no Libels , but my Lady did : Great odds in am'rous or poetic game , Where ...
Strona 61
... once their vinegar and wine . W But on fome w lucky day ( as when they found A loft Bank bill , or heard their fon was drown'd ) At fuch a feaft , * old vinegar to fpare , Is what two fouls fo gen'rous cannot bear : Oil , tho ' it ftink ...
... once their vinegar and wine . W But on fome w lucky day ( as when they found A loft Bank bill , or heard their fon was drown'd ) At fuch a feaft , * old vinegar to fpare , Is what two fouls fo gen'rous cannot bear : Oil , tho ' it ftink ...
Strona 71
... once proud Buckingham's delight , Slides to a Scriv❜ner or a city Knight . b Let lands and houses have what lords they will , Let Us be fix'd , and our own masters still . 175 180 tation , in the concluding part , obliged him to ...
... once proud Buckingham's delight , Slides to a Scriv❜ner or a city Knight . b Let lands and houses have what lords they will , Let Us be fix'd , and our own masters still . 175 180 tation , in the concluding part , obliged him to ...
Strona 85
... once à Slave : Send her to Court , you send her to her grave . Well , if a King's a Lion , at the leaft b The People are a many - headed Beaft : Can they direct what measures to pursue , Who know themselves fo little what to do ? 120 ...
... once à Slave : Send her to Court , you send her to her grave . Well , if a King's a Lion , at the leaft b The People are a many - headed Beaft : Can they direct what measures to pursue , Who know themselves fo little what to do ? 120 ...
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Strona 21 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Strona 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Strona 17 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Strona 49 - 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 45 - Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be Page.
Strona 17 - And those they left me; for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and 'tell it on his tomb: Of all thy blameless...
Strona 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Strona 182 - Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate towards them breeds pity towards the rest.
Strona 6 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Strona 24 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...