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... seen a MS . copy of this play , found by Lord Bolingbroke among the sweepings of Pope's study , in which there occur several indecent passages , not to be found in the printed copy . These , doubtless , constituted the castrations ...
... seen a MS . copy of this play , found by Lord Bolingbroke among the sweepings of Pope's study , in which there occur several indecent passages , not to be found in the printed copy . These , doubtless , constituted the castrations ...
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... seen an epistle of Flecknoe's to a nobleman , who was by some extraordinary chance a scholar ; ( and you may please to take notice by the way , how natural the connection of thought is betwixt a bad poet and Flecknoe ) where he begins ...
... seen an epistle of Flecknoe's to a nobleman , who was by some extraordinary chance a scholar ; ( and you may please to take notice by the way , how natural the connection of thought is betwixt a bad poet and Flecknoe ) where he begins ...
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... seen , because it was written and acted in your absence , at your government of Jamaica . It was intended for an honest satire against our crying sin of keep- ing ; how it would have succeeded , I can but guess , for it was permitted to ...
... seen , because it was written and acted in your absence , at your government of Jamaica . It was intended for an honest satire against our crying sin of keep- ing ; how it would have succeeded , I can but guess , for it was permitted to ...
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... seen the light , in a country more bigot than ours , and is accounted amongst the best pieces of that poet . I will be bold enough to say , that this co- medy is of the first rank of those which I have writ- ten , and that posterity ...
... seen the light , in a country more bigot than ours , and is accounted amongst the best pieces of that poet . I will be bold enough to say , that this co- medy is of the first rank of those which I have writ- ten , and that posterity ...
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... seen its best days long ago ; It ne'er look'd up , since we were dipt in show ; When sense in doggrel rhimes and clouds was lost , And dulness flourish'd at the actor's cost . Nor stopt it here ; when tragedy was done , Satire and ...
... seen its best days long ago ; It ne'er look'd up , since we were dipt in show ; When sense in doggrel rhimes and clouds was lost , And dulness flourish'd at the actor's cost . Nor stopt it here ; when tragedy was done , Satire and ...
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Página 223 - Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path...
Página 223 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Página 285 - Too subtle-potent, tun'd too sharp in sweetness, For the capacity of my ruder powers: I fear it much; and I do fear besides, That I shall lose distinction in my joys...
Página 188 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Página 223 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you...
Página 117 - Yet man, vain man, would with his short-lined plummet Fathom the vast abyss of heavenly justice. Whatever is, is in its causes just, Since all things are by fate. But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain, the nearest links, His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.
Página 258 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 365 - AmboyS" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ;* nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
Página 223 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 440 - Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off, and mellows into right; So power, which, in one age, is tyranny, Is ripened, in the next, to true succession: She's in possession.