The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... imagine , cuncta refigno ; Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium , nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.r Saepe verecundum laudafti : Rexque , Paterque Audifti coram , nec verbo parcius abfens : Infpice , fi poffum donata reponere ...
... imagine , cuncta refigno ; Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium , nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.r Saepe verecundum laudafti : Rexque , Paterque Audifti coram , nec verbo parcius abfens : Infpice , fi poffum donata reponere ...
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... imagine it might be that univerfal Genius whofe life I am writing , I returned home , and having maturely confidered their feveral arguments , which I found to be of equal weight , I quieted my curiosity with this natural conclufion ...
... imagine it might be that univerfal Genius whofe life I am writing , I returned home , and having maturely confidered their feveral arguments , which I found to be of equal weight , I quieted my curiosity with this natural conclufion ...
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... : s ; and can we be fo vain to imagine that the Microcofm of the human body alone is exempted from the fate of all things ? I ‡ K 4 question queftion not but plaufible Conjectures may be made . even MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 135.
... : s ; and can we be fo vain to imagine that the Microcofm of the human body alone is exempted from the fate of all things ? I ‡ K 4 question queftion not but plaufible Conjectures may be made . even MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 135.
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... imagine them to belong to a Sur- geon of a Ship , or a Captain of a Merchantman , let him remain in his Ignorance . in And whoever he be , that fhall farther obferve , every page of fuch book , that cordial Love of Mankind , that ...
... imagine them to belong to a Sur- geon of a Ship , or a Captain of a Merchantman , let him remain in his Ignorance . in And whoever he be , that fhall farther obferve , every page of fuch book , that cordial Love of Mankind , that ...
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... imagine they may be fafe by tempo- rizing between the extremes ) that where there is not a Triticalnefs or Mediocrity in the Thought , it can never be funk into the genuine and perfect Bathos , by the moft elaborate low Expreffion : It ...
... imagine they may be fafe by tempo- rizing between the extremes ) that where there is not a Triticalnefs or Mediocrity in the Thought , it can never be funk into the genuine and perfect Bathos , by the moft elaborate low Expreffion : It ...
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Página 325 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Página 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
Página 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Página 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
Página 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Página 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
Página 310 - ... of a trumpet. They roll along as a plentiful river, always in motion, and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of...
Página 289 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.
Página 300 - 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 45 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.