The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Volume 81754 |
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Page 195 - of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours; and though all the foolifti induftry poffible has been ufed •to make it thought a party-play, yet what the author once faid of another may the moft properly in the world be apply'd to him on this occafion,
Page 236 - Heav'n opens on my eyes ! my ears With founds feraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly! O Grave ! where is thy Viftory ? O Death! where is
Page 264 - fet between an eafy fortune and a fmall one. It is indeed a high ftrain of generofity in you, to think of making me eafy all my life, only becaufe I have been fo happy as to divert you fome few hours: but if I may have leave to add, it is becaufe you think
Page 235 - but that I had in my head not only the verfes of Adrian, but the fine fragment of Sappho, &c. The dying Chriftian to his SOUL. ODE. I. Vital fpark of heav'nly flame .' Quit, oh quit this mortal frame : Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the blifs of dying ! Ceafe, fond Nature,
Page 228 - to the whole creation, methinks, 'tis a fhame to be concern'd at the removal of fuch a trivial animal as I am. The morning after my exit, the fun will rife as bright as ever, the flowers fmell as fweet, the plants ipring as green, the world will proceed in its old
Page 264 - IAm obliged to you both for the favours you have done me, and for thofe you intend me. I diftruft neither your will nor your memory, when it is to do good ; and if ever I become troublefome or follicitous, it muft not be out of expectation, but out of gratitude. Your
Page 228 - all uneafy at the thought, that many men, whom I never had any efteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an inconfiderable little atom every fingle man is, with refpeft to the whole creation, methinks, 'tis a fhame to be
Page 263 - me, I mould be afhamed to receive them from any man who had no better opinion of my Morals, than to think me a Party-man : nor of my Temper, than to believe me capable of maligning, or envying another's reputation as a poet. So I leave it to time to convince him as to both, to
Page 269 - the public in general, he to gratify the inordinate defires of one man only. We have, it feems, a great Turk in poetry, who can never bear a brother on the throne; and has his mutes too, a fet of nodders, winkers, and whifperers, whofe bufmefs is to
Page 145 - are to underftand, Madam, that my paffion for your fair felf and your fitter, has been divided with the moft wonderful regularity in the world. Even from my infancy I have been in love with one after the other of you, week by week, and my journey to Bath fell out in the three hundred