The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... Vice ought to be chastised , Ver . 269. The Va- riety of Style and Manner which these two Subjects require , Ver . The Praise of Virtue may be admitted with Propriety , Ver . 315. Caution with regard to Panegyric , Ver . 329 . Dignity ...
... Vice ought to be chastised , Ver . 269. The Va- riety of Style and Manner which these two Subjects require , Ver . The Praise of Virtue may be admitted with Propriety , Ver . 315. Caution with regard to Panegyric , Ver . 329 . Dignity ...
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... vice ; Till madly zealous , impotently vain , He forfeits every praise he pants to gain . Thus still imperious NATURE plies her part , And still her dictates work in every heart . 50 65 Each power that sovereign Nature bids enjoy , 55 6 ...
... vice ; Till madly zealous , impotently vain , He forfeits every praise he pants to gain . Thus still imperious NATURE plies her part , And still her dictates work in every heart . 50 65 Each power that sovereign Nature bids enjoy , 55 6 ...
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... vice , Another's weakness , interest , or caprice . Each fool to low ambition , poorly great , That pines in splendid wretchedness of state ; 70 Tired in the treacherous chase , would nobly yield , And , but for shame , like SYLLA ...
... vice , Another's weakness , interest , or caprice . Each fool to low ambition , poorly great , That pines in splendid wretchedness of state ; 70 Tired in the treacherous chase , would nobly yield , And , but for shame , like SYLLA ...
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... vice she draws a healing dew . 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , securely wrapp'd in wiles ; And Force , strong sinew'd , rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of ...
... vice she draws a healing dew . 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , securely wrapp'd in wiles ; And Force , strong sinew'd , rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of ...
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... vice , the foes of SATIRE , All truth is spleen ; all just reproof , ill - nature . Well may they dread the Muse's fatal skill ; Well may they tremble when she draws her quill ; Her magic quill , that like ITHURIEL's spear , 135 Reveals ...
... vice , the foes of SATIRE , All truth is spleen ; all just reproof , ill - nature . Well may they dread the Muse's fatal skill ; Well may they tremble when she draws her quill ; Her magic quill , that like ITHURIEL's spear , 135 Reveals ...
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Seite 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Seite 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 36 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Seite 75 - 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...
Seite 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Seite 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Seite 63 - 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, Alike...
Seite 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Seite 388 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.