The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 31853 |
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... READER . Ir will be found a true observation , though somewhat surprising , that when any scandal is vented against a man of the highest distinction and character , either in the state or in literature , the public in general afford it ...
... READER . Ir will be found a true observation , though somewhat surprising , that when any scandal is vented against a man of the highest distinction and character , either in the state or in literature , the public in general afford it ...
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... reader ; but it would have been a wrong to him had I detained the publication ; since those names which are its chief ornaments die off daily so fast , as must render it too soon unintelligible . If it provoke the author to give us a ...
... reader ; but it would have been a wrong to him had I detained the publication ; since those names which are its chief ornaments die off daily so fast , as must render it too soon unintelligible . If it provoke the author to give us a ...
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... reader too much troubled or anxious , if he cannot de- cipher them ; since , when he shall have found them out , he will probably know no more of the persons than before . Yet we judged it better to preserve them as they are , than to ...
... reader too much troubled or anxious , if he cannot de- cipher them ; since , when he shall have found them out , he will probably know no more of the persons than before . Yet we judged it better to preserve them as they are , than to ...
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... reader has here a much more correct and complete copy of the " Dunciad , " than has hitherto ap- peared . I cannot answer but some mistakes may have slipt into it , but a vast number of others will be prevented by the names being now ...
... reader has here a much more correct and complete copy of the " Dunciad , " than has hitherto ap- peared . I cannot answer but some mistakes may have slipt into it , but a vast number of others will be prevented by the names being now ...
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... reader of humanity , to see all along that our author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his poem , those alone are capable of doing it justice , who , to use the words ...
... reader of humanity , to see all along that our author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his poem , those alone are capable of doing it justice , who , to use the words ...
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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...