Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq;: Faithfully Collected from Authentic Authors, Original Manuscripts, and the Testimonies of Many Persons of Credit and Honour: with Critical Observations. Adorned with the Heads of Divers Illustrious Persons, Treated of in These Memoirs, Curiously Engrav'd by the Best Hands. In Two Volumes, Volumen2his Majesty's authority, 1745 |
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Página 97
... young Ladies , often for Amusement , or to cure the Va- pours , when in Reality they want to purchase no- thing : Not being able to go thro ' this Slavery , and doing what he did in the Shop with a Mind quite bent another Way , his ...
... young Ladies , often for Amusement , or to cure the Va- pours , when in Reality they want to purchase no- thing : Not being able to go thro ' this Slavery , and doing what he did in the Shop with a Mind quite bent another Way , his ...
Página 113
... young Prince was born here , and Mr. Pope thereon writes to him , Nov. 8 , 1718 . The Poftcript is a Proof of our Affertion . I Have no Story to tell you worth your Hearing ; you know I am no Man of Intrigue ; but the Dutchefs of ...
... young Prince was born here , and Mr. Pope thereon writes to him , Nov. 8 , 1718 . The Poftcript is a Proof of our Affertion . I Have no Story to tell you worth your Hearing ; you know I am no Man of Intrigue ; but the Dutchefs of ...
Página 114
... young Prince , because he is the only Prince we have , from whom you have had no Expectations and no Difap- pointments . In this Letter , we obferve Mrs. P - l -- t - n - y men- tioned with Respect and Esteem , but the altering her ...
... young Prince , because he is the only Prince we have , from whom you have had no Expectations and no Difap- pointments . In this Letter , we obferve Mrs. P - l -- t - n - y men- tioned with Respect and Esteem , but the altering her ...
Página 117
... young Nobleman ? It is my very hard Fate , I must get nothing , write for them or against them . I find myself in fuch a strange Con- fufion and Depreffion of Spirits , that I have not Strength even to make my Will ; though I perceive ...
... young Nobleman ? It is my very hard Fate , I must get nothing , write for them or against them . I find myself in fuch a strange Con- fufion and Depreffion of Spirits , that I have not Strength even to make my Will ; though I perceive ...
Página 130
... young Men of infipid Deli- cacy , conceruing , I wift not what , golden Age , and other outragious Conceits , to which they would con- fine Paftoral . Verily , as little Pleafance receiveth a true home- bred Taft , from all the fine ...
... young Men of infipid Deli- cacy , conceruing , I wift not what , golden Age , and other outragious Conceits , to which they would con- fine Paftoral . Verily , as little Pleafance receiveth a true home- bred Taft , from all the fine ...
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Página 319 - 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; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Página 69 - So proud, so grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down...
Página 183 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Página 373 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
Página 369 - When statesmen, heroes, kings, in dust repose Whose sons shall blush their fathers were thy foes, Shall then this verse to future age pretend Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend,— That urg'd by thee, I turn'd the tuneful art From sounds to things, from fancy to the heart...
Página 121 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Página 311 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Página 215 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 79 - A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain.
Página 270 - God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.