The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 2J. Balfour, 1764 - English essays |
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... rhyme , for two reasons . The one will ap- - pear obvious ; that principles , maxims , or precepts fo written , both strike the reader more strongly at first , and are more easily retained by him afterwards : The other may seem odd ...
... rhyme , for two reasons . The one will ap- - pear obvious ; that principles , maxims , or precepts fo written , both strike the reader more strongly at first , and are more easily retained by him afterwards : The other may seem odd ...
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... rhyme Happy ! to catch me , juft at Dinner - time . VER . 1. Shut , fout the door , good John ! ] John Searl , his old and faithful fervant , whom he has remembered , under that character , in his Will . Is there a Parfon , much be ...
... rhyme Happy ! to catch me , juft at Dinner - time . VER . 1. Shut , fout the door , good John ! ] John Searl , his old and faithful fervant , whom he has remembered , under that character , in his Will . Is there a Parfon , much be ...
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... rhyming Peer , A Clerk foredoom'd his father's foul to cross , Who pens a Stanza , when he fhould engros ? 15 Is there , who , lock'd from ink and paper , fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? 20 All fly to TWITʼNAM ...
... rhyming Peer , A Clerk foredoom'd his father's foul to cross , Who pens a Stanza , when he fhould engros ? 15 Is there , who , lock'd from ink and paper , fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? 20 All fly to TWITʼNAM ...
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... Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ends , Oblig'd by hunger and request of friends : 35 39 " The piece , you think , is incorrect ? why take it , 45 " I'm all fubmiffion , what you'd have it , make it . " Three things ...
... Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ends , Oblig'd by hunger and request of friends : 35 39 " The piece , you think , is incorrect ? why take it , 45 " I'm all fubmiffion , what you'd have it , make it . " Three things ...
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... rhymes , or blafphemies . His wit all fee - faw , between that and this , Now high , now low , now mafter up , now miss , And he himself one vile Antithesis . Amphibious thing ! that acting either part , The trifling head , or the ...
... rhymes , or blafphemies . His wit all fee - faw , between that and this , Now high , now low , now mafter up , now miss , And he himself one vile Antithesis . Amphibious thing ! that acting either part , The trifling head , or the ...
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