Mr. Pope, His Life and Times, Volume 1Hutchinson & Company, 1909 - 747 pages |
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... honour of perfection , will surely injure the reputation of the friend he desires to assist . " For the benefit of those readers who may desire to improve their acquaintance with the poet , the following list is given of the authorities ...
... honour of perfection , will surely injure the reputation of the friend he desires to assist . " For the benefit of those readers who may desire to improve their acquaintance with the poet , the following list is given of the authorities ...
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... honour to have a pinch of snuff out of his box . Although Pope , child as he was , looked on the poet with veneration , and observed him well , he could tell but little about him in after- life except that " Dryden was not a very ...
... honour to have a pinch of snuff out of his box . Although Pope , child as he was , looked on the poet with veneration , and observed him well , he could tell but little about him in after- life except that " Dryden was not a very ...
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... honour of print . They were read and admired by wits of standing like Congreve and Garth , and by noblemen of discernment like Lord Halifax and Lord Wharton . " Knowing Walsh , " as Pope dubbed him , declared that Virgil himself had ...
... honour of print . They were read and admired by wits of standing like Congreve and Garth , and by noblemen of discernment like Lord Halifax and Lord Wharton . " Knowing Walsh , " as Pope dubbed him , declared that Virgil himself had ...
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... honoured only for their shame . " While awaiting his introduction to the public Pope occupied himself in making translations from Ovid and Statius , paraphrasing one or two of the " Canterbury Tales , " and working at his drawing . The ...
... honoured only for their shame . " While awaiting his introduction to the public Pope occupied himself in making translations from Ovid and Statius , paraphrasing one or two of the " Canterbury Tales , " and working at his drawing . The ...
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... honour : ' If it comes , it comes unlooked - for ; and there's an end on't . ' I can be content with a bare saving gain , without being thought an eminent hand , ' with which little Jacob [ Tonson ] has graciously dignified his ...
... honour : ' If it comes , it comes unlooked - for ; and there's an end on't . ' I can be content with a bare saving gain , without being thought an eminent hand , ' with which little Jacob [ Tonson ] has graciously dignified his ...
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Page 170 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 170 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 104 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 110 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame,...
Page 171 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
Page 103 - Transformed to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms; The fair each moment rises in her charms...
Page 62 - And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet; The smiling infant in his hand shall take The crested basilisk and speckled snake, Pleased the green lustre of the scales survey, And with their forky tongue shall innocently play.
Page 108 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 103 - To one man's treat, but for another's ball? When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand? With varying vanities, from every part, They shift the moving toyshop of their heart; 100 Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
Page 62 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice