The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... better . To fet this matter full before ye , Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story . " Harley , the Nation's great Support , " But you may read it , I ftop short . 80 SATIRE SATIRA VI . H %% OC erat in votis : Ep . VII . 9 OF HORACE .
... better . To fet this matter full before ye , Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story . " Harley , the Nation's great Support , " But you may read it , I ftop short . 80 SATIRE SATIRA VI . H %% OC erat in votis : Ep . VII . 9 OF HORACE .
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... better , we may call , 150 And what , the very best of all ? Our Friend Dan Prior , told ( you know ) A Tale extremely à propos : Name a Town Life , and in a trice , He had a Story of two Mice . Once on a time ( fo runs the Fable ) 155 ...
... better , we may call , 150 And what , the very best of all ? Our Friend Dan Prior , told ( you know ) A Tale extremely à propos : Name a Town Life , and in a trice , He had a Story of two Mice . Once on a time ( fo runs the Fable ) 155 ...
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... . ] It had been better - and there was Light , - -as more conformable to the reality of the fact and to the allusion whereby it is celebrated . IG 2 XIII . XIII . On Dr. FRANCIS ATTERBURY , Bishop of Rochester Í TAPHS . 83.
... . ] It had been better - and there was Light , - -as more conformable to the reality of the fact and to the allusion whereby it is celebrated . IG 2 XIII . XIII . On Dr. FRANCIS ATTERBURY , Bishop of Rochester Í TAPHS . 83.
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... better received , they proposed to do it in the manner of Cervantes ( the original author of this species of fatire ) under the hiftory of fome feigned adventures . They had obferved thofe abufes ftill kept their ground against all that ...
... better received , they proposed to do it in the manner of Cervantes ( the original author of this species of fatire ) under the hiftory of fome feigned adventures . They had obferved thofe abufes ftill kept their ground against all that ...
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... better to be childlefs , than to become the Pa- rent of a Fool . His Wife mifcarried ; but as the Abortion proved only a fémale Foetus , he comfort- ed himself , that , had it arrived to perfection , it would not have anfwer'd his ...
... better to be childlefs , than to become the Pa- rent of a Fool . His Wife mifcarried ; but as the Abortion proved only a fémale Foetus , he comfort- ed himself , that , had it arrived to perfection , it would not have anfwer'd his ...
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Página 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Página 81 - 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 liv'd, and that he died.
Página 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Página 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Página 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Página 284 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Página 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Página 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Página 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Página 331 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, 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...