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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... use , " Send for him up , take no excufe . ” The toil , the danger of the Seas ; Great Minifters ne'er think of these ; 25 30 35 Or let it coft five hundred pound , No matter where the money's found , 40 It is but fo much more in debt ...
... use , " Send for him up , take no excufe . ” The toil , the danger of the Seas ; Great Minifters ne'er think of these ; 25 30 35 Or let it coft five hundred pound , No matter where the money's found , 40 It is but fo much more in debt ...
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... USE , ' tis enough : at length thy labour ends , And thou shalt live , for Buckingham commends . Let Crowds of Critics now my Verse affail , Let Dennis write , and nameless numbers rail : This more than pays whole years of thankless ...
... USE , ' tis enough : at length thy labour ends , And thou shalt live , for Buckingham commends . Let Crowds of Critics now my Verse affail , Let Dennis write , and nameless numbers rail : This more than pays whole years of thankless ...
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... use this Monarch 66 66 at his firft arrival in his dominions , to ma- " nacle and shackle him hand and foot ? Is this " what you call to be free - born ? If you have " no regard to his natural Liberty , at least have " fome to his ...
... use this Monarch 66 66 at his firft arrival in his dominions , to ma- " nacle and shackle him hand and foot ? Is this " what you call to be free - born ? If you have " no regard to his natural Liberty , at least have " fome to his ...
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... use either " of them indifferently , they being equally . antique . 66 .66 66 Building of Houses , and Riding upon Sticks , " have been used by Children in all ages ; Ædi- ficare cafas , equitare in arundine longa . Yet I " much doubt ...
... use either " of them indifferently , they being equally . antique . 66 .66 66 Building of Houses , and Riding upon Sticks , " have been used by Children in all ages ; Ædi- ficare cafas , equitare in arundine longa . Yet I " much doubt ...
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... use after the age of the " Centaurs . " There is one Play which fhews the gravity " of ancient Education , called the Acinetinda , " in which children contended who could long- " eft ftand ftill . This we have suffered to pe- " rish ...
... use after the age of the " Centaurs . " There is one Play which fhews the gravity " of ancient Education , called the Acinetinda , " in which children contended who could long- " eft ftand ftill . This we have suffered to pe- " rish ...
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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.