The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... 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 fhall turn , Who Maggots were before . SONG 1 SONG , by a Person of Quality . F MISCELLANIE S. 59 SONG,
... 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 fhall turn , Who Maggots were before . SONG 1 SONG , by a Person of Quality . F MISCELLANIE S. 59 SONG,
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Alexander Pope. 1 SONG , by a Person of Quality . F Written in the Year 1733 . I. Lutt'ring fpread thy purple Pinions , Gentle Cupid , o'er my Heart ; I a Slave in thy Dominions ; Nature must give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever ...
Alexander Pope. 1 SONG , by a Person of Quality . F Written in the Year 1733 . I. Lutt'ring fpread thy purple Pinions , Gentle Cupid , o'er my Heart ; I a Slave in thy Dominions ; Nature must give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever ...
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... Person who frequented the outside of the Palace of St. James's , and who , by the Gravity of his De- portment and Habit , was generally taken for a de- cay'd Gentleman of Spain . His ftature was tall , his visage long , his complexion ...
... Person who frequented the outside of the Palace of St. James's , and who , by the Gravity of his De- portment and Habit , was generally taken for a de- cay'd Gentleman of Spain . His ftature was tall , his visage long , his complexion ...
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... persons by bringing fresh Air out of the Country to Town , by pipes of the nature of the Recipients of Air pumps : And to introduce the Native air of a man's country into any other in which he fhould travel , with a fea- fonable ...
... persons by bringing fresh Air out of the Country to Town , by pipes of the nature of the Recipients of Air pumps : And to introduce the Native air of a man's country into any other in which he fhould travel , with a fea- fonable ...
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... persons of the first Quality ; and by the encouragement of the Ladies , not unsuccessfully introduced even into the Draw . ing - room . Indeed its incredible Progrefs and Con- quefts may be compared to thofe of the great Se- foftris ...
... persons of the first Quality ; and by the encouragement of the Ladies , not unsuccessfully introduced even into the Draw . ing - room . Indeed its incredible Progrefs and Con- quefts may be compared to thofe of the great Se- foftris ...
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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.
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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...
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