The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... learned Friend of Abchurch - Lane , Who fett'ft our entrails free ? Vain is thy Art , thy Powder vain , Since Worms fhall eat ev'n thee . Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Some few short years , no more ! Ev'n Button's Wits to Worms ...
... learned Friend of Abchurch - Lane , Who fett'ft our entrails free ? Vain is thy Art , thy Powder vain , Since Worms fhall eat ev'n thee . Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Some few short years , no more ! Ev'n Button's Wits to Worms ...
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... learned Eafe , Content with Science in the Vale of Peace . Calmly he look'd on either Life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd , Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd , and that ...
... learned Eafe , Content with Science in the Vale of Peace . Calmly he look'd on either Life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd , Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd , and that ...
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... learned Author . Hereupon he took me afide , furvey'd me over with a fixt attention , and opening the clafps of the Parchment cover , spoke ( to my great furprize ) in English , as follows : " Courteous ftranger , whoever thou art , I ...
... learned Author . Hereupon he took me afide , furvey'd me over with a fixt attention , and opening the clafps of the Parchment cover , spoke ( to my great furprize ) in English , as follows : " Courteous ftranger , whoever thou art , I ...
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... learned Gentleman , by Profeffion an Antiquary ; who , among all his invaluable Curio- fities , Memoirs . ] Mr. Pope , Dr. Arbuthnot , and Dr. Swift projected to write a fatire , in conjunction , on the abuses of human learning ; and to ...
... learned Gentleman , by Profeffion an Antiquary ; who , among all his invaluable Curio- fities , Memoirs . ] Mr. Pope , Dr. Arbuthnot , and Dr. Swift projected to write a fatire , in conjunction , on the abuses of human learning ; and to ...
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... learned Scriverius became fo ena- moured , as to inebriate his friend , and be familiar with his Miftrefs . I am not ignorant of what t Columefius affirms , that the learned Barthius was not fo overtaken , but he perceived it ; and in ...
... learned Scriverius became fo ena- moured , as to inebriate his friend , and be familiar with his Miftrefs . I am not ignorant of what t Columefius affirms , that the learned Barthius was not fo overtaken , but he perceived it ; and in ...
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Página 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Página 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Página 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Página 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Página 284 - 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 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Página 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Página 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Página 331 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, 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...