Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 sivua |
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... Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle song ) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must ...
... Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle song ) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must ...
Sivu 32
... Poor guiltless I ! and can I chuse but smile , When ev'ry coxcomb knows me by my style ? Curst be the verse , how well soe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft ...
... Poor guiltless I ! and can I chuse but smile , When ev'ry coxcomb knows me by my style ? Curst be the verse , how well soe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft ...
Sivu 35
... poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry state : Alike my scorn , if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling scribler , or a hireling peer , Knight of the post corrupt , or ...
... poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry state : Alike my scorn , if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling scribler , or a hireling peer , Knight of the post corrupt , or ...
Sivu 44
... poor : Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives still we see ; Thus much is left of old simplicity ! The robin - red - breast till of late had rest , And children sacred held a martin's nest , Till beccaficos sold so dev'lish dear To one ...
... poor : Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives still we see ; Thus much is left of old simplicity ! The robin - red - breast till of late had rest , And children sacred held a martin's nest , Till beccaficos sold so dev'lish dear To one ...
Sivu 47
... poor ? Shall half the new - built churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or repair White - hall : Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that fortune cannot ...
... poor ? Shall half the new - built churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or repair White - hall : Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that fortune cannot ...
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Sivu 26 - 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...
Sivu 121 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Sivu 20 - 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.
Sivu 24 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Sivu 142 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Sivu 21 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, " Furies, death, and rage! " If I approve,
Sivu 23 - One flatt'rer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes; One from all Grub Street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe.
Sivu 21 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Sivu 142 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Sivu 29 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.