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" O you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or born too high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, or a breath... "
Old England and New England: In a Series of Views Taken on the Spot - Page 122
by Alfred Bunn - 1853 - 315 pages
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The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated

Alexander Pope - 1737 - 36 pages
...applaufe J But fill their purfe, our Poet's \vork is done^ Alike to them, by Pathos or by Pun. 30 O you! whom Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of Praife j With what a fhifting gale your fcourie you ply For ever runk too low, oivborri too high !...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1738 - 184 pages
...tala. * Aftraa, a Name taken by Mrs. Behn, Aiuhorefs, of fcvci-al obfcene Plays, &c. O you ! whom 94 Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praife, With what a drifting gale your Courie you ply, For ever funk too low, or born too high ! Who...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...fill their x purfe, our Poet's work is done, Alike to them, by Pathos or by Pun. 295 O you ! whom y Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praife, NOTES. metaphor of non afri£lo, greatly improved by the happy ambiguity of the word logfely...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...their x purfe, our Poet's work is done, Alike to them, by Pathos or by Pun. 295 • O you ! whom y Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praife, NOTES. metaphor of not aftriflo, greatly improved by the happy ambiguity of the word loofely...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 pages
...fill their * purfe, our Poet's work is done, Alike to them, by Pathos or by Pun. 295 O you I whom y Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praife, NOTES. metaphor of nan aftriflo. greatly improved by the happy ambiguity of the word loofely...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...fill their * purfe, our Poet's work is done, Alike to them, by Pathos or by Pun. 295 O you ! whom y Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praife, With what a fhifting gale your courfe you ply, For ever funk too low, or born too high ! NOTES....
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

1764 - 198 pages
...famous, ate wrote withan infinite deal of wit and humou ?; few fince his time have equalled them. 6. O you ! whom Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praife, With what a Ihifting gale your courfe you ply, Per ever funk too low, or borne too high ! Who...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pages
...acrefcit: valeat res lud'icra, Jt me. "Pa/ma negata macritm, donata reducit op" tunum" ***#»*•* * " O you ! whom Vanity's light bark conveys* " On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of " praife, * The annotator has well obferved, that this metaphor, though very fine, is inferior to t.'cntifo...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 pages
...refclt : valeat res ludlcra^ Ji me u Palma negata macrum, dona ta reducit of" timum" ****#*#* *' O you ! whom Vanity's light bark conveys* " On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of £«; • r " praile, * The annotator has well obferved, that this metaphor, though very fine, is inferior...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pages
...res ludicra, Jt me " Palma negata macrum, donata reducit of." timtim." *•***»*** *' O you ! W7hom Vanity's light bark conveys * " On Fame's .mad voyage by the wind of " praife, * The annotator has well obfcrved, that this metaphor,, though very fine, is -inferior to...
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