The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volume 5T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... worms ! 170 The things , we know are neither rich nor rare , But wonder how the devil they got there . Were others angry ; I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage , I gave them but their due . 175 180 A man's true merit ' tis not hard ...
... worms ! 170 The things , we know are neither rich nor rare , But wonder how the devil they got there . Were others angry ; I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage , I gave them but their due . 175 180 A man's true merit ' tis not hard ...
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... worm we find , 5 E'er since our grandam's evil ; 10 She first convers'd with her own kind , That ancient worm the devil . The learn'd themselves we Book - worms name , The blockhead is a Slow - worm ; The nymph whose tail is all on ...
... worm we find , 5 E'er since our grandam's evil ; 10 She first convers'd with her own kind , That ancient worm the devil . The learn'd themselves we Book - worms name , The blockhead is a Slow - worm ; The nymph whose tail is all on ...
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... worm they take their rise , And in a worm decay . The flatterer an ear - wig grows ; Thus worms suit all conditions ; 20 Misers are muck - worms , silk - worms beaus , And death - watches physicians . That statesmen have the worm , is ...
... worm they take their rise , And in a worm decay . The flatterer an ear - wig grows ; Thus worms suit all conditions ; 20 Misers are muck - worms , silk - worms beaus , And death - watches physicians . That statesmen have the worm , is ...
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... and Improvements Alexander Pope. Our fate thou only canst adjourn Some few short years , no more ! Ev'n Button's wits to worms shall turn , Who maggots were before . 40 TO MRS . M. B. ON HER BIRTH - DAY 128 EPISTLES .
... and Improvements Alexander Pope. Our fate thou only canst adjourn Some few short years , no more ! Ev'n Button's wits to worms shall turn , Who maggots were before . 40 TO MRS . M. B. ON HER BIRTH - DAY 128 EPISTLES .
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... Worm - Powder , 119 123 126 Epistle VII . To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth - day , 129 Epistle VIII . To Mr. Thomas Southern on his Birth - day , 1742 , · 130 MISCELLANIES . The Basset - Table . An Eclogue , Verbatim from Boileau , Answer to ...
... Worm - Powder , 119 123 126 Epistle VII . To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth - day , 129 Epistle VIII . To Mr. Thomas Southern on his Birth - day , 1742 , · 130 MISCELLANIES . The Basset - Table . An Eclogue , Verbatim from Boileau , Answer to ...
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Page 12 - 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, no brother near the throne...
Page 13 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 18 - 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.
Page 15 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :; Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 17 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 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.
Page 32 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 8 - Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. *Tis sung, when Midas...
Page 5 - A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross!
Page 11 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.