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... sense subsides , and fancy sports in sleep , ( Though past the recollection of the thought ) Becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought : Something as dim to our internal view , Is thus , perhaps , the cause of most we do . 50 True ...
... sense subsides , and fancy sports in sleep , ( Though past the recollection of the thought ) Becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought : Something as dim to our internal view , Is thus , perhaps , the cause of most we do . 50 True ...
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... sense to pray : To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of God , but of her Stars , to give The mighty blessing while we live to live . ' Then all for death , that opiate of the soul ! Lucretia's dagger , Rosamunda's bowl ...
... sense to pray : To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of God , but of her Stars , to give The mighty blessing while we live to live . ' Then all for death , that opiate of the soul ! Lucretia's dagger , Rosamunda's bowl ...
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... gold refines And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , 290 Kept dross for duchesses , the world shall know it , To you gave sense , good humor , and a poet . 292 TO ALLEN , LORD BATHURST . Of the Use of 30 Epist II . MORAL ESSAYS .
... gold refines And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , 290 Kept dross for duchesses , the world shall know it , To you gave sense , good humor , and a poet . 292 TO ALLEN , LORD BATHURST . Of the Use of 30 Epist II . MORAL ESSAYS .
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... sense to value Riches , with the art T'enjoy them , and the virtue to impart , Not meanly , nor ambitiously pursu'd , Not sunk by sloth , nor rais'd by servitude ; To balance fortune by a just expence , Join with economy , magnificence ...
... sense to value Riches , with the art T'enjoy them , and the virtue to impart , Not meanly , nor ambitiously pursu'd , Not sunk by sloth , nor rais'd by servitude ; To balance fortune by a just expence , Join with economy , magnificence ...
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... sense , v . 40 . The chief proof of it is to follow Nature , even in works of mere luxury and elegance . Instanced in architecture and gardening , where all must be adapted to the genius and use of the place , and the beauties not ...
... sense , v . 40 . The chief proof of it is to follow Nature , even in works of mere luxury and elegance . Instanced in architecture and gardening , where all must be adapted to the genius and use of the place , and the beauties not ...
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Page 132 - 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 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Page 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 131 - 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.
Page 136 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 126 - 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 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Page 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay '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.
Page 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.