The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 31853 |
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... sure it can be none here for who will pretend that the robbing another of his reputation , supplies the want of it in himself ? I question not but such authors are poor , and heartily wish the objection were removed by any honest ...
... sure it can be none here for who will pretend that the robbing another of his reputation , supplies the want of it in himself ? I question not but such authors are poor , and heartily wish the objection were removed by any honest ...
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... Sure it is , he is little favoured of certain authors , whose wrath is perilous ; for one declares he ought to have a price set on his head , and to be hunted down as a wild beast.33 Another protests that he does not know what may ...
... Sure it is , he is little favoured of certain authors , whose wrath is perilous ; for one declares he ought to have a price set on his head , and to be hunted down as a wild beast.33 Another protests that he does not know what may ...
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... sure to have it in the amplest manner , " & c . Thus we see every one of his works hath been extolled by one or other of his most inveterate enemies ; and to the success of them all they do unanimously give testimony . But it is ...
... sure to have it in the amplest manner , " & c . Thus we see every one of his works hath been extolled by one or other of his most inveterate enemies ; and to the success of them all they do unanimously give testimony . But it is ...
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... sure enough a hero , who hath his lady at fourscore . How doth his modesty herein lessen the merit of a whole well - spent life : not taking to himself the commendation ( which Horace accounted the greatest in a theatrical character ) ...
... sure enough a hero , who hath his lady at fourscore . How doth his modesty herein lessen the merit of a whole well - spent life : not taking to himself the commendation ( which Horace accounted the greatest in a theatrical character ) ...
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... sure my friends are dis- pleased with them , for in this light I afford them frequent matter of mirth , & c . , & c . " 31 Having then so publicly declared himself incorrigible , he is become dead in law ( I mean the law Epopoeian ) and ...
... sure my friends are dis- pleased with them , for in this light I afford them frequent matter of mirth , & c . , & c . " 31 Having then so publicly declared himself incorrigible , he is become dead in law ( I mean the law Epopoeian ) and ...
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Popular passages
Page 284 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Page 261 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast...
Page 252 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 291 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Page 3 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 271 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 298 - See the sole bliss heav'n could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know: Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good, untaught, will find; 330 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God: Pursues that chain which links th...