The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, ... for J. Sharpe; and sold by W. Suttaby, 1808 |
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... merits found . Thus her blind sister , fickle Fortune , reigns , And , undiscerning , scatters crowns and chains . First at the shrine the learned world appear , And to the goddess thus prefer their pray'r : - ' Long have we sought to ...
... merits found . Thus her blind sister , fickle Fortune , reigns , And , undiscerning , scatters crowns and chains . First at the shrine the learned world appear , And to the goddess thus prefer their pray'r : - ' Long have we sought to ...
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... merits forth , And give each deed the ' exact intrinsic worth . ' ' Not with bare justice shall your act be crown'd , ( Said Fame ) but high above desert renown'd : Let fuller notes the ' applauding world amaze , And the loud clarion ...
... merits forth , And give each deed the ' exact intrinsic worth . ' ' Not with bare justice shall your act be crown'd , ( Said Fame ) but high above desert renown'd : Let fuller notes the ' applauding world amaze , And the loud clarion ...
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... merit , nor aspire to fanie ! But safe in deserts from the ' applause of men , Would die unheard of , as we liv'd unseen ; ' Tis all we beg thee , to conceal from sight Those acts of goodness which themselves requite . O let us still ...
... merit , nor aspire to fanie ! But safe in deserts from the ' applause of men , Would die unheard of , as we liv'd unseen ; ' Tis all we beg thee , to conceal from sight Those acts of goodness which themselves requite . O let us still ...
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... merit all they feel , and more : Unaw'd by precepts , human or divine , Like birds and beasts , promiscuously they join ; Nor know to make the present blessing last , To hope the future , or esteem the past : But vainly boast the joys ...
... merit all they feel , and more : Unaw'd by precepts , human or divine , Like birds and beasts , promiscuously they join ; Nor know to make the present blessing last , To hope the future , or esteem the past : But vainly boast the joys ...
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... ' But after many a hearty struggle past , 6 I condescended to be pleas'd at last , Soon as he said , ' My mistress and my wife ! Do what you list the term of all your life ; ' I took to heart the merits of the cause , 54 THE WIFE OF bath .
... ' But after many a hearty struggle past , 6 I condescended to be pleas'd at last , Soon as he said , ' My mistress and my wife ! Do what you list the term of all your life ; ' I took to heart the merits of the cause , 54 THE WIFE OF bath .
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78 ページ - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky...
76 ページ - 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.
178 ページ - See Mystery to Mathematics fly : In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. 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.
67 ページ - TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the Laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
129 ページ - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
76 ページ - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
70 ページ - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
68 ページ - I'm all submission ; what you'd have it, make it." Three things another's modest wishes bound, My friendship, and a prologue, and ten pound. Pitholeon sends to me : " You know his grace : I want a patron ; ask him for a place.
72 ページ - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
126 ページ - He stuck to poverty with peace of mind ; And me, the Muses help'd to undergo it ; Convict a papist he, and I a poet. But (thanks to Homer) since I live and thrive, Indebted to no prince or peer alive ; Sure I should want the care of ten Monroes,3 If I would scribble rather than repose.