The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes, Volume 2Charles Whittingham, 1808 |
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... lord . What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines , How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault , And each ...
... lord . What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines , How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault , And each ...
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... lords had wit ; The fair sat panting at a courtier's play , And not a mask went unimprov'd away ; The modest fan was lifted up no more , And virgins smil'd at what they blush'd before . The following licence of a foreign reign Did all ...
... lords had wit ; The fair sat panting at a courtier's play , And not a mask went unimprov'd away ; The modest fan was lifted up no more , And virgins smil'd at what they blush'd before . The following licence of a foreign reign Did all ...
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... Lord Roscommon , & c . - Conclusion . LEARN then what morals critics ought to show , For ' tis but half a judge's task to know . ' Tis not enough taste , judgment , learning , join ; In all you speak let truth and candour shine ; That ...
... Lord Roscommon , & c . - Conclusion . LEARN then what morals critics ought to show , For ' tis but half a judge's task to know . ' Tis not enough taste , judgment , learning , join ; In all you speak let truth and candour shine ; That ...
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... of censure , nor too fond of fame ; Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame ; Averse alike to flatter or offend ; Not free from faults , nor yet too vain to mend AN ESSAY ON MAN . IN FOUR EPISTLES TO LORD 24 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... of censure , nor too fond of fame ; Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame ; Averse alike to flatter or offend ; Not free from faults , nor yet too vain to mend AN ESSAY ON MAN . IN FOUR EPISTLES TO LORD 24 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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In Four Volumes Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN . IN FOUR EPISTLES TO LORD BOLINGBROKE . THE DESIGN . HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners , such as ( to use my Lord Bacon's expression ) ' come home to men's ...
In Four Volumes Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN . IN FOUR EPISTLES TO LORD BOLINGBROKE . THE DESIGN . HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners , such as ( to use my Lord Bacon's expression ) ' come home to men's ...
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