The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... rules , And not like forty other Fools : As thus , " Vouchsafe , oh gracious Maker ↓ " To grant me this and other Acre : " Or , if it be thy Will and Pleasure , " Direct my Plow to find a Treasure : " • But only what my Station fits ...
... rules , And not like forty other Fools : As thus , " Vouchsafe , oh gracious Maker ↓ " To grant me this and other Acre : " Or , if it be thy Will and Pleasure , " Direct my Plow to find a Treasure : " • But only what my Station fits ...
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... rule , that guides , but not constrains ; And finish'd more thro ' happiness than pains . The kindred Arts fhall in their praise confpire , One dip the pencil , and one ftring the lyre . Yet fhould the Graces all thy figures place , And ...
... rule , that guides , but not constrains ; And finish'd more thro ' happiness than pains . The kindred Arts fhall in their praise confpire , One dip the pencil , and one ftring the lyre . Yet fhould the Graces all thy figures place , And ...
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... Rules of the An- cients , for the generation of Children of Wit . He ordered his diet according to the prescription of Galen , confining himself and his wife for almoft the whole first year to Goat's Milk and Honey . It unfortunately ...
... Rules of the An- cients , for the generation of Children of Wit . He ordered his diet according to the prescription of Galen , confining himself and his wife for almoft the whole first year to Goat's Milk and Honey . It unfortunately ...
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... rules of the pureft Antiquity , in re- lation to the Exercifes of his Son . He was ftript , powder'd , and anointed , but not conftantly bath'd , which occafioned many heavy complaints of the Laundrefs about " dirtying his linen . When ...
... rules of the pureft Antiquity , in re- lation to the Exercifes of his Son . He was ftript , powder'd , and anointed , but not conftantly bath'd , which occafioned many heavy complaints of the Laundrefs about " dirtying his linen . When ...
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... Rules of Logick are Spectacles to a purblind understanding , and there- fore he refolved to proceed with his two Pupils . Martin's understanding was so totally immers'd in fenfible objects , that he demanded examples from * When a ...
... Rules of Logick are Spectacles to a purblind understanding , and there- fore he refolved to proceed with his two Pupils . Martin's understanding was so totally immers'd in fenfible objects , that he demanded examples from * When a ...
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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.