The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... Letters , without knowing how to judge of merit . The confequence of which is , that , as all true merit is modest and referved ; and the falfe , forward and prefuming ; and the Judge easily impofed upon ; Fools get the rewards due to ...
... Letters , without knowing how to judge of merit . The confequence of which is , that , as all true merit is modest and referved ; and the falfe , forward and prefuming ; and the Judge easily impofed upon ; Fools get the rewards due to ...
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... letter , ] The letter Y used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of Virtue and Vice . Et tibi quæ Samios diduxit , litera ramos . Perf . VER . 153. Plac'd at the door , & c . ] This circumftance of the Genius Loci ( with ...
... letter , ] The letter Y used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of Virtue and Vice . Et tibi quæ Samios diduxit , litera ramos . Perf . VER . 153. Plac'd at the door , & c . ] This circumftance of the Genius Loci ( with ...
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... letters - patent of its erection came to be verified in the Parliament of Paris , deferves to be remembered : He told ... Letter 8. ) which before his time had fkulked perhaps in " fome old Homily , were talked , written , and preached ...
... letters - patent of its erection came to be verified in the Parliament of Paris , deferves to be remembered : He told ... Letter 8. ) which before his time had fkulked perhaps in " fome old Homily , were talked , written , and preached ...
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... Letters in the last Edit . VER . 198. On German Crouzaz and Dutch Burgersdyck . ] There feems to be an improbability that the Doctors and Heads of Houfes fhould ride on horseback , who of late days , being gouty or unwieldy , have kept ...
... Letters in the last Edit . VER . 198. On German Crouzaz and Dutch Burgersdyck . ] There feems to be an improbability that the Doctors and Heads of Houfes fhould ride on horseback , who of late days , being gouty or unwieldy , have kept ...
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... Letter ; ] Alluding to thofe Grammarians , fuch as Palamedes and Si- monides , who invented fingle letters . But Ariftarchus , who had found out a double one , was therefore worthy of double honour . SCRIBL . VER . 217 , 218. While tow ...
... Letter ; ] Alluding to thofe Grammarians , fuch as Palamedes and Si- monides , who invented fingle letters . But Ariftarchus , who had found out a double one , was therefore worthy of double honour . SCRIBL . VER . 217 , 218. While tow ...
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第 7 頁 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
第 215 頁 - Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
第 75 頁 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
第 184 頁 - To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
第 179 頁 - And breathe an air divine on ev'ry face; Yet should the Muses bid my numbers roll Strong as their charms, and gentle as their soul; With Zeuxis...
第 155 頁 - How think you of our friend the Dean ? I wonder what some people mean ; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tc te a tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
第 84 頁 - ... all the great characters of the age; and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
第 199 頁 - Cyprian goddess weeping Mourn'd Adonis, darling youth : Him the boar, in silence creeping, Gor'd with unrelenting tooth. IV. Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers ; Fair Discretion, string the lyre ; Sooth my ever-waking slumbers : Bright Apollo, lend thy choir, V. Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors, Arm'd in adamantine chains, Lead me to the crystal mirrors, "Watering soft Elysian plains.
第 216 頁 - Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herself may die.
第 178 頁 - Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife; Bid her be all that makes mankind adore, Then view this marble, and be vain no more!