The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 31853 |
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... virtue of the authority in us vested by the act for subjecting poets to the power of a licenser , we have revised this piece ; where , finding the style and appellation of King to have been given to a certain pretender , pseudo - poet ...
... virtue of the authority in us vested by the act for subjecting poets to the power of a licenser , we have revised this piece ; where , finding the style and appellation of King to have been given to a certain pretender , pseudo - poet ...
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... virtue and honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers : and some had been such old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their persons as well as their slanders , till they were pleased ...
... virtue and honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers : and some had been such old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their persons as well as their slanders , till they were pleased ...
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... virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it annihilates the credit of the accusation with the just and impartial , yet aggravates very much the guilt of the accusers ; I mean by authors without names ; then I ...
... virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it annihilates the credit of the accusation with the just and impartial , yet aggravates very much the guilt of the accusers ; I mean by authors without names ; then I ...
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... virtues as he had long observed in them , and only in such times as others cease to praise , if not begin to calumniate them , I mean when out of power , or out of fashion.11 A satire , therefore , on writers so notorious for the ...
... virtues as he had long observed in them , and only in such times as others cease to praise , if not begin to calumniate them , I mean when out of power , or out of fashion.11 A satire , therefore , on writers so notorious for the ...
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... virtue : if you take away her tender thoughts , and her fierce desires , all the rest is of no value . " In which , methinks , his judgment resembles that of a French tailor on a villa and gardens by the Thames : " All this is very fine ...
... virtue : if you take away her tender thoughts , and her fierce desires , all the rest is of no value . " In which , methinks , his judgment resembles that of a French tailor on a villa and gardens by the Thames : " All this is very fine ...
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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...