The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... play for Mr. DENNIS's benefit in 1733 , when he was old , blind , and in great di- firefs , a little before his death MACER , a character To Mr. JOHN MOORE , author of the celebrated WORM - POWDER VOL . VI . 55 57 58 SONG , ERRAT A. er ...
... play for Mr. DENNIS's benefit in 1733 , when he was old , blind , and in great di- firefs , a little before his death MACER , a character To Mr. JOHN MOORE , author of the celebrated WORM - POWDER VOL . VI . 55 57 58 SONG , ERRAT A. er ...
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... play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time , Nor penfive Cowley's moral lay . Sages and Chiefs long fince had birth Ere Cæfar was , or Newton nam'd ; These rais'd new Empires o'er the Earth , And Thofe , new Heav'ns and Systems fram'd ...
... play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time , Nor penfive Cowley's moral lay . Sages and Chiefs long fince had birth Ere Cæfar was , or Newton nam'd ; These rais'd new Empires o'er the Earth , And Thofe , new Heav'ns and Systems fram'd ...
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... play'd the trifle , Life , away ; ' Till fate scarce felt his gentle breath fuppreft , " As fmiling Infants sport themselves to rest . Ev'n rival Wits did Voiture's death deplore , And the gay mourn'd who never mourn'd before ; The ...
... play'd the trifle , Life , away ; ' Till fate scarce felt his gentle breath fuppreft , " As fmiling Infants sport themselves to rest . Ev'n rival Wits did Voiture's death deplore , And the gay mourn'd who never mourn'd before ; The ...
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... Play , To morning - walks , and pray'rs three hours a day ; To part her time ' twixt reading and bohea , To mufe , and fpill ' her folitary tea , Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon , Count the flow clock , and dine exact at noon ...
... Play , To morning - walks , and pray'rs three hours a day ; To part her time ' twixt reading and bohea , To mufe , and fpill ' her folitary tea , Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon , Count the flow clock , and dine exact at noon ...
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... Play does know : Dear BETTY fhall th ' important point decide ; BETTY , who oft the pain of each has try'd , Impartial , the shall fay who fuffers most , By Cards ' Ill Ufage , or by Lovers loft . LOVET . Tell , tell your griefs ...
... Play does know : Dear BETTY fhall th ' important point decide ; BETTY , who oft the pain of each has try'd , Impartial , the shall fay who fuffers most , By Cards ' Ill Ufage , or by Lovers loft . LOVET . Tell , tell your griefs ...
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againſt alfo almoft alſo ancient animals Bathos beauty becauſe cafe caft cafus caufe cauſe compofed confifts Cornelius Crambe defcribe defcription defign defire difcover Eclogues Engliſh ev'ry excellent expreffion eyes faid fame feems fenfe feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould filly fince fingle firft firſt fome fometimes Friend ftill fubject fuch Genius greateſt hath himſelf Homer honour Horfes Horſe Iliad inftance itſelf juft juſt laft leaft learned leaſt lefs Lord mafter manner Martin modern moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never obferved occafion paffages Paffion pafs Paftoral perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Poems Poet poetry praiſe prefent Profund publick quam quoth racter raiſe reafon reft rife ſay Scriblerus ſeem Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſpeak Terpander thee thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thro tranflated univerfal uſe verfe verſes Virgil whofe whole words writers
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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...