The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 6A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... Such tattle often entertains My Lord and me as far as Stains , As once a week we travel down To Windfor , and again to Town , Where all that passes , inter nos , Might be proclaim'd at Charing - Cross . Yet fome I know with envy fwell ...
... Such tattle often entertains My Lord and me as far as Stains , As once a week we travel down To Windfor , and again to Town , Where all that passes , inter nos , Might be proclaim'd at Charing - Cross . Yet fome I know with envy fwell ...
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... SUCH CH were the notes thy once - lov'd Poet fung , 5 ' Till Death untimely stop'd his tuneful tongue . Oh just beheld , and loft ! admir'd and mourn'd ! With foftest manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in ev ...
... SUCH CH were the notes thy once - lov'd Poet fung , 5 ' Till Death untimely stop'd his tuneful tongue . Oh just beheld , and loft ! admir'd and mourn'd ! With foftest manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in ev ...
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... Such unfeign'd Paffion in his Looks appears , I lose all Mem'ry of my former Fears ; My panting heart confeffes all his charms , I yield at once , and fink into his arms : Think of that moment , you who Prudence boast ; For fuch a ...
... Such unfeign'd Paffion in his Looks appears , I lose all Mem'ry of my former Fears ; My panting heart confeffes all his charms , I yield at once , and fink into his arms : Think of that moment , you who Prudence boast ; For fuch a ...
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... Such , fuch emotions should in Britons rise , When prefs'd by want and weakness DENNIS lies ; Dennis , who long had warr'd with modern Huns , Their Quibbles routed , and defy'd their Puns ; A defp'rate Bulwark , sturdy , firm , and ...
... Such , fuch emotions should in Britons rise , When prefs'd by want and weakness DENNIS lies ; Dennis , who long had warr'd with modern Huns , Their Quibbles routed , and defy'd their Puns ; A defp'rate Bulwark , sturdy , firm , and ...
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... such strains as fhew he was equally a master of this kind of Compofition with every other he undertook , as the following lines in the Epifle to Jervas may witness ; which would have made the finest Epitaph in the world : Call round her ...
... such strains as fhew he was equally a master of this kind of Compofition with every other he undertook , as the following lines in the Epifle to Jervas may witness ; which would have made the finest Epitaph in the world : Call round her ...
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Página 407 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespeare, 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 finished and regular, as upon an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture, compared with a neat modern building.
Página 340 - 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 318 - ... in all the simplicity proper to the country; his names are borrowed from Theocritus and Virgil, which are improper to the scene of his pastorals.
Página 392 - Players are just such judges of what is right, as tailors are of what is graceful. And in this view it will be but fair to allow, that most of our author's faults are less to be ascribed to his wrong judgment as a poet, than to his right judgment as a player.
Página 382 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Página 352 - 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 15 - Not thinking it is levee-day, And find his honour in a pound, Hemm'd by a triple circle round, Chequer'd with ribbons blue and green: How should I thrust myself between?
Página 332 - If thou shalt find a bird's nest in the way, thou shalt not take the dam with the young ; But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go ; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Página 19 - How think you of our friend the Dean? I wonder what some people mean; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tete-d-tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
Página 364 - ... graces it was capable of; and in particular never failed to bring the sound of his line to a beautiful agreement with its sense.