The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Honour's ear . I hope it is your Refolution To give me back my Constitution ! The fprightly Wit , the lively Eye , Th ' engaging Smile , the Gaiety , That laugh'd down many a Summer Sun , And kept you up so oft till one : } 30 35 4.0 45 ...
... Honour's ear . I hope it is your Refolution To give me back my Constitution ! The fprightly Wit , the lively Eye , Th ' engaging Smile , the Gaiety , That laugh'd down many a Summer Sun , And kept you up so oft till one : } 30 35 4.0 45 ...
Sivu 13
... Honour in a Pound , 30 35 40 45 Hemm'd by a triple Circle round , Chequer'd with Ribbons blue and green : How should I thruft myself between ? 50 Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And fmiling , whispers to the next , " I thought the ...
... Honour in a Pound , 30 35 40 45 Hemm'd by a triple Circle round , Chequer'd with Ribbons blue and green : How should I thruft myself between ? 50 Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And fmiling , whispers to the next , " I thought the ...
Sivu 25
... An't please your Honour , quoth the Peafant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! 210 215 220 BOOK LIBER IV . OD E I. I ' ADVENERE M. Sat. VI . OF HORACE . 25.
... An't please your Honour , quoth the Peafant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my hollow Tree , " A Cruft of Bread , and Liberty ! 210 215 220 BOOK LIBER IV . OD E I. I ' ADVENERE M. Sat. VI . OF HORACE . 25.
Sivu 42
... honour , and made Fools by shame . Marriage may all those petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in their place ; Well might you wish for change by those accurft , But the last Tyrant ever proves the worst . Still in ...
... honour , and made Fools by shame . Marriage may all those petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in their place ; Well might you wish for change by those accurft , But the last Tyrant ever proves the worst . Still in ...
Sivu 73
... Honour unchang'd , a Principle profest , Fix'd to one fide , but mod rate to the rest : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Juft to his Prince , and to his Country true : Fill'd with the Senfe of Age , the Fire of Youth , A Scorn ...
... Honour unchang'd , a Principle profest , Fix'd to one fide , but mod rate to the rest : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Juft to his Prince , and to his Country true : Fill'd with the Senfe of Age , the Fire of Youth , A Scorn ...
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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Sivu 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.
Sivu 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Sivu 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...