The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volumen5T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 páginas |
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... lie . 21 25 25 30 To laugh were want of goodness and of grace , And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face . 35 I sit with sad civility , I read With honest anguish , and an aching head , And drop at last , but in unwilling ears , 39 ...
... lie . 21 25 25 30 To laugh were want of goodness and of grace , And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face . 35 I sit with sad civility , I read With honest anguish , and an aching head , And drop at last , but in unwilling ears , 39 ...
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... lie ? ) The Queen of Midas slept , and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature smarts so little as a fool . 80 Let peals of laughter , Codrus , round thee break , 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack ...
... lie ? ) The Queen of Midas slept , and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature smarts so little as a fool . 80 Let peals of laughter , Codrus , round thee break , 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack ...
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... prating Balbus ) " something will come out . " " Tis all in vain , deny it as I will ; " No , such a genius never can lie still ; ” And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES . 15.
... prating Balbus ) " something will come out . " " Tis all in vain , deny it as I will ; " No , such a genius never can lie still ; ” And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES . 15.
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... lie not must at least betray ; Who to the Dean and silver bell can swear , And sees at Canons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a lust to misapply , Makes satire a lampoon , and fiction lie ; A lash like mine no honest man ...
... lie not must at least betray ; Who to the Dean and silver bell can swear , And sees at Canons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a lust to misapply , Makes satire a lampoon , and fiction lie ; A lash like mine no honest man ...
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... lies , 325 Or spite , or smut , or rhymes , or blasphemies ; His wit all see - saw between that and this , Now high , now low , now master up , now miss , And he himself one vile antithesis . Amphibious thing ! that acting either part ...
... lies , 325 Or spite , or smut , or rhymes , or blasphemies ; His wit all see - saw between that and this , Now high , now low , now master up , now miss , And he himself one vile antithesis . Amphibious thing ! that acting either part ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 12 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 13 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 18 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Página 15 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :; Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Página 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 17 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 32 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Página 8 - Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. *Tis sung, when Midas...
Página 5 - A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross!
Página 11 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.