The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volume 5T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... shine that superfluity away . Oh impudence of wealth ! with all thy store How dar'st thou let one worthy man be poor ? Shall half the new - built churches round thee f.ll ? Make quays , build bridges , or repair Whitehall ; 120 Or to ...
... shine that superfluity away . Oh impudence of wealth ! with all thy store How dar'st thou let one worthy man be poor ? Shall half the new - built churches round thee f.ll ? Make quays , build bridges , or repair Whitehall ; 120 Or to ...
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... shine thro ' long succeeding age ; So just thy skill , so regular my rage . 5 10 15 Smit with the love of sister arts we came , And met congenial , mingling flame with flame ; Like friendly colours found them both unite , And each from ...
... shine thro ' long succeeding age ; So just thy skill , so regular my rage . 5 10 15 Smit with the love of sister arts we came , And met congenial , mingling flame with flame ; Like friendly colours found them both unite , And each from ...
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... shine ! Free as thy stroke , yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display , Soft without weakness , without glaring gay ; Led by some rule that guides , but not constrains , And finish'd more thro ' happiness ...
... shine ! Free as thy stroke , yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display , Soft without weakness , without glaring gay ; Led by some rule that guides , but not constrains , And finish'd more thro ' happiness ...
Page 119
... shine , And all the writer lives in ev'ry line ; His easy art may happy nature seem ; Trifles themselves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with esteem ...
... shine , And all the writer lives in ev'ry line ; His easy art may happy nature seem ; Trifles themselves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with esteem ...
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... shine , 35 The metal and the workmanship divine- Smil . This snuff - box - once the pledge of Sharper's When rival beauties for the present strove ; At Corticelli's he the raffle won ; Then first his passion was in public shown ...
... shine , 35 The metal and the workmanship divine- Smil . This snuff - box - once the pledge of Sharper's When rival beauties for the present strove ; At Corticelli's he the raffle won ; Then first his passion was in public shown ...
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Page 12 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 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...
Page 13 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 18 - 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.
Page 15 - 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.
Page 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 17 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 32 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 8 - Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. *Tis sung, when Midas...
Page 5 - A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross!
Page 11 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.