The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 6J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
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... laughter spurns her awful train , And Mercy courts , and Justice frowns in vain . 120 But SATIRE'S shaft can pierce the harden'd breast : She plays a ruling passion on the rest ; Undaunted storms the battery of his pride , 1 115 And ...
... laughter spurns her awful train , And Mercy courts , and Justice frowns in vain . 120 But SATIRE'S shaft can pierce the harden'd breast : She plays a ruling passion on the rest ; Undaunted storms the battery of his pride , 1 115 And ...
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... Laughter's dimple cheek , 210 Contemns each surly academic foe , And courts the spruce freethinker and the beau . Dadalian arguments but few can trace , 215 But all can read the language ... laugh shall win , PART II . 13 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... Laughter's dimple cheek , 210 Contemns each surly academic foe , And courts the spruce freethinker and the beau . Dadalian arguments but few can trace , 215 But all can read the language ... laugh shall win , PART II . 13 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... laugh shall win , And coxcombs vanquish BERKLEY by a grin . But you , more sage , reject th ' inverted rule , 225 That truth is e'er explored by ridicule : On truth , on falsehood let her colours fall , She throws a dazzling glare alike ...
... laugh shall win , And coxcombs vanquish BERKLEY by a grin . But you , more sage , reject th ' inverted rule , 225 That truth is e'er explored by ridicule : On truth , on falsehood let her colours fall , She throws a dazzling glare alike ...
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... laughter move , The knave exults : to smile is to approve . The Muse's labour then success shall crown , 275 When Folly feels her smile , and Vice her frown . Know next what measures to each theme belong , And suit your thoughts and ...
... laughter move , The knave exults : to smile is to approve . The Muse's labour then success shall crown , 275 When Folly feels her smile , and Vice her frown . Know next what measures to each theme belong , And suit your thoughts and ...
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... laughter can behold A sordid pebble meanly graced with gold ? Let real merit then adorn your lays , For shame attends on prostituted praise ; VOL . VI . C 340 346 And all your wit , your most distinguish'd art PART II . 17 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... laughter can behold A sordid pebble meanly graced with gold ? Let real merit then adorn your lays , For shame attends on prostituted praise ; VOL . VI . C 340 346 And all your wit , your most distinguish'd art PART II . 17 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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Page 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Page 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? 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.
Page 36 - 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!
Page 75 - 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...
Page 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Page 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Page 63 - 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, Alike...
Page 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Page 388 - 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 touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.