The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with Life of the Author and Notes by J. LuptonMacmillan & Company, 1869 - 505 pages |
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Page 44
... Fools grant whate'er Ambition craves , And men , once ignorant , are slaves . Oh curs'd effects of civil hate , In ev'ry age , in ev'ry state ! Still , when the lust of tyrant power suc- ceeds , 30 O SEMICHORUS . H Tyrant Love ! hast ...
... Fools grant whate'er Ambition craves , And men , once ignorant , are slaves . Oh curs'd effects of civil hate , In ev'ry age , in ev'ry state ! Still , when the lust of tyrant power suc- ceeds , 30 O SEMICHORUS . H Tyrant Love ! hast ...
Page 50
... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our ... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike ...
... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our ... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike ...
Page 51
... fools at last . Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , num'rous in our isle , As half - form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things , one knows ...
... fools at last . Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , num'rous in our isle , As half - form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things , one knows ...
Page 55
... fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits1 of needful pride ; For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our ...
... fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits1 of needful pride ; For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our ...
Page 56
... fools , Who durst depart from Aristotle's rules . Our Author , happy in a judge so nice , Produc'd his Play , and begg'd the Knight's advice Made him observe the subject , and the plot , The manners , passions , unities ; what not ? All ...
... fools , Who durst depart from Aristotle's rules . Our Author , happy in a judge so nice , Produc'd his Play , and begg'd the Knight's advice Made him observe the subject , and the plot , The manners , passions , unities ; what not ? All ...
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