The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes, Volume 2Charles Whittingham, 1808 |
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... never criticise . Be Homer's works your study and delight , Read them by day , and meditate by night ; Thence form your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the Muses upward to their spring . Still with itself compar'd , his ...
... never criticise . Be Homer's works your study and delight , Read them by day , and meditate by night ; Thence form your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the Muses upward to their spring . Still with itself compar'd , his ...
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... never - failing vice of fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied She gives in large recruits of needful pride : For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails ...
... never - failing vice of fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied She gives in large recruits of needful pride : For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails ...
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... never all to please ; ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old those met rewards who ...
... never all to please ; ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old those met rewards who ...
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... never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state , and statesmen farces writ ; Nay , wits had pensions , and young 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 ...
... never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state , and statesmen farces writ ; Nay , wits had pensions , and young 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 ...
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... never shock'd , and never turn'd aside , Bursts out , resistless , with a thundering tide . But where's the man who counsel can bestow , Still pleas'd to teach , and yet not proud to know ? Unbiass'd or by favour or by spite , Not dully ...
... never shock'd , and never turn'd aside , Bursts out , resistless , with a thundering tide . But where's the man who counsel can bestow , Still pleas'd to teach , and yet not proud to know ? Unbiass'd or by favour or by spite , Not dully ...
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