The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Volume 3C. Cooke, 1796 |
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... hand still at a bill ; now he must talk Idly , like pris'ners , which whole months will fwear That only furetyship hath brought them there , And to every fuitor lie in ev'ry thing , Like a king's favourite , or like a king : Like a ...
... hand still at a bill ; now he must talk Idly , like pris'ners , which whole months will fwear That only furetyship hath brought them there , And to every fuitor lie in ev'ry thing , Like a king's favourite , or like a king : Like a ...
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... hands and eyes , Squeaks like a bigh - ftretch'd luteftring , and replies ; Oh ' tis the sweetest of all earthly things To gaze on princes , and to talk of kings ! • Then happy man who shows the tombs ! faid I ; He dwells amidst the ...
... hands and eyes , Squeaks like a bigh - ftretch'd luteftring , and replies ; Oh ' tis the sweetest of all earthly things To gaze on princes , and to talk of kings ! • Then happy man who shows the tombs ! faid I ; He dwells amidst the ...
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... hand , and as a still , which lays A femibrief ' twixt each drop , he niggardly , As loath to inrich me , fo tells many a lye , More than ten Holinfheds , or Halls , or Stows , Of trivial household trash he knows . He knows When the ...
... hand , and as a still , which lays A femibrief ' twixt each drop , he niggardly , As loath to inrich me , fo tells many a lye , More than ten Holinfheds , or Halls , or Stows , Of trivial household trash he knows . He knows When the ...
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... hands or eyes , And when in act they ceafe , in prospect rife ; Prefent to grafp , and future ftill to find ; The whole employ of body and of mind . All fpread their charms , but charm not all alike On diff'rent fenfes diff'rent objects ...
... hands or eyes , And when in act they ceafe , in prospect rife ; Prefent to grafp , and future ftill to find ; The whole employ of body and of mind . All fpread their charms , but charm not all alike On diff'rent fenfes diff'rent objects ...
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... hands deny'd , The Mule may give thee , but the gods muft guide : Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honeft zeal , To roufe the watchmen of the public weal , To Virtue's work provoke the tardy hall , And goad the prelate flumb'ring in his ...
... hands deny'd , The Mule may give thee , but the gods muft guide : Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honeft zeal , To roufe the watchmen of the public weal , To Virtue's work provoke the tardy hall , And goad the prelate flumb'ring in his ...
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Page 8 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 35 - In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw, Entangle Justice in her net of law, And right, too rigid, harden into wrong; Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong.
Page 36 - Th' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all Nature's laws, T" invert the world, and counterwork its cause ? Force first made conquest, and that conquest law...
Page 30 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place, Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Page 33 - Who calls the council, states the certain day ? Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
Page 27 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 25 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 27 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Page 65 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, 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.
Page 190 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.