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... turns of mind : Or puzzling contraries confound the whole ; 65 Or affectations quite reverse the soul . The dull , flat falsehood , serves for policy ; And in the cunning , truth itself's a lie ; Unthought - of frailties cheat us in the ...
... turns of mind : Or puzzling contraries confound the whole ; 65 Or affectations quite reverse the soul . The dull , flat falsehood , serves for policy ; And in the cunning , truth itself's a lie ; Unthought - of frailties cheat us in the ...
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... turn a crafty knave ? Alas ! in truth , the man but chang'd his mind , Perhaps was sick , in love , or had not din'd . Ask why from Britain Cæsar would retreat ? Cæsar himself might whisper he was beat . Why risk the world's great ...
... turn a crafty knave ? Alas ! in truth , the man but chang'd his mind , Perhaps was sick , in love , or had not din'd . Ask why from Britain Cæsar would retreat ? Cæsar himself might whisper he was beat . Why risk the world's great ...
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... turns him now a stupid , silent dunce ? Some god or spirit he has lately found , Or chanc'd to meet a minister that frown'd . Judge we by Nature ? habit can efface , Int'rest o'ercome , or policy take place . By actions ? those ...
... turns him now a stupid , silent dunce ? Some god or spirit he has lately found , Or chanc'd to meet a minister that frown'd . Judge we by Nature ? habit can efface , Int'rest o'ercome , or policy take place . By actions ? those ...
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... turn with climes , Tenets with books , and principles with times . 173 PART III . SEARCH then the ruling passion ... turns repentant , and his God adores , With the same spirit that he drinks and whores ; Enough if all around him but ...
... turn with climes , Tenets with books , and principles with times . 173 PART III . SEARCH then the ruling passion ... turns repentant , and his God adores , With the same spirit that he drinks and whores ; Enough if all around him but ...
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... turns ; 66 A very Heathen in the carnal part , 70 Yet still a sad good Christian at her heart . See Sin in state , majestically drunk ; Proud as a peeress , prouder as a punk ; Chaste to her husband , frank to all beside , A teeming ...
... turns ; 66 A very Heathen in the carnal part , 70 Yet still a sad good Christian at her heart . See Sin in state , majestically drunk ; Proud as a peeress , prouder as a punk ; Chaste to her husband , frank to all beside , A teeming ...
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Page 132 - 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 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Page 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; 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? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 136 - 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, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Page 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.