The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... live on this fide Trent ; Nor cross the Channel twice a year , To spend fix Months with Statesmen here . I muft by all means come to town , " Tis for the fervice of the Crown . 25 30 " Lewis , the Dean will be of use , 35 Send for him ...
... live on this fide Trent ; Nor cross the Channel twice a year , To spend fix Months with Statesmen here . I muft by all means come to town , " Tis for the fervice of the Crown . 25 30 " Lewis , the Dean will be of use , 35 Send for him ...
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... live with Men : " Confider , Mice , like Men , must die , " Both small and great , both you and I : " Then spend your life in Joy and Sport , " ( This doctrine , Friend , I learnt at Court . ) 180 The verieft Hermit in the Nation May ...
... live with Men : " Confider , Mice , like Men , must die , " Both small and great , both you and I : " Then spend your life in Joy and Sport , " ( This doctrine , Friend , I learnt at Court . ) 180 The verieft Hermit in the Nation May ...
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... live . ” No fooner faid , but from the Hall Rush Chaplain , Butler , Dogs and all : " A Rat , a Rat ! clap to the door The Cat comes bouncing on the floor . O for the heart of Homer's Mice , Or Gods to fave them in a trice ! ( It was by ...
... live . ” No fooner faid , but from the Hall Rush Chaplain , Butler , Dogs and all : " A Rat , a Rat ! clap to the door The Cat comes bouncing on the floor . O for the heart of Homer's Mice , Or Gods to fave them in a trice ! ( It was by ...
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... lives in ev'ry line ; His eafy 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 no less convers'd than read ...
... lives in ev'ry line ; His eafy 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 no less convers'd than read ...
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... live to these . 30 Too much your Sex is by their forms confin'd , Severe to all , but moft to Womankind ; Cuftom , grown blind with Age , must be your guide ; Your pleasure is a vice , but not your pride ; By Nature yielding , ftubborn ...
... live to these . 30 Too much your Sex is by their forms confin'd , Severe to all , but moft to Womankind ; Cuftom , grown blind with Age , must be your guide ; Your pleasure is a vice , but not your pride ; By Nature yielding , ftubborn ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose Alexander Pope Visualização integral - 1751 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 94 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Página 327 - Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children, but rewarded or punished them as they treated them well or ill. This was no other than entering them betimes into a daily exercise of humanity, and improving their very diversion to a virtue.
Página 370 - Odyssey above the ^Eneis; as that the hero is a wiser man, and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other; or else they blame him for not doing what he never...
Página 403 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Página 393 - Hamlet, enlarged to almost as much again as at first, and many others. I believe the common opinion of his want of learning proceeded from no better ground. This, too, might be thought a praise by some, and to this his errors have as injudiciously been ascribed by others.
Página 357 - ... evidently, affeCt us not in proportion to thofe of Homer. His characters of valour are much alike...
Página 355 - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and...
Página 409 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespeare, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more finished and regular, as upon an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture, compared with a neat modern building.
Página 397 - Vati noceat . But however this contention might be carried on by the Partizans on either side, I cannot help thinking these two great Poets were good friends, and lived on amicable terms and in offices of society with each other.
Página 49 - Love, rais'd on beauty, will like that decay, Our hearts may bear its slender...