The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volumen5T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 páginas |
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... Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , 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 ? Or which ...
... Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , 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 ? Or which ...
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... Poor guiltless I ! and can I chuse but smile , When ev'ry coxcomb knows me by my Style ? 280 Curst be the verse , how well soe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give virtue scandal , innocence a fear , 285 Or from ...
... Poor guiltless I ! and can I chuse but smile , When ev'ry coxcomb knows me by my Style ? 280 Curst be the verse , how well soe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give virtue scandal , innocence a fear , 285 Or from ...
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... poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave to me in ev'ry state ; Alike my scorn if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail ; A hireling scribbler , or a hireling peer , Knight of the Post corrupt , or of the ...
... poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave to me in ev'ry state ; Alike my scorn if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail ; A hireling scribbler , or a hireling peer , Knight of the Post corrupt , or of the ...
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... poor . Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives , still we see ; Thus much is left of old simplicity ! SO 35 The robin redbreast till of late had rest , And children sacred held a martin's nest , Till baccaficos sold so dev'lish dear To one ...
... poor . Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives , still we see ; Thus much is left of old simplicity ! SO 35 The robin redbreast till of late had rest , And children sacred held a martin's nest , Till baccaficos sold so dev'lish dear To one ...
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... poor ? Shall half the new - built churches round thee f.ll ? Make quays , build bridges , or repair Whitehall ; 120 Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that Fortune cannot ...
... poor ? Shall half the new - built churches round thee f.ll ? Make quays , build bridges , or repair Whitehall ; 120 Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that Fortune cannot ...
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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.