 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...like a clown in regal purple drefs'd : For different ftyles with different fubjecls fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and court. Some * by Old words to fame have made pretence i Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe ! Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle,... | |
 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...exprefs'd, Is like a clown in regal purple drefs'd; difFrent ftyles with difTrent fu'bjedts fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and court. .Some *by old...words to fame have made pretence: Ancients in phrafe, mere moderns in their fenfeJ Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...drefs'd. For diffrent ftyles with difTrent fubjefts fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and eomt. Some * by old words to fame have made pretence : Ancients in phrafe, mere moderns in their fenfe ! ; Such labour'd nothings, !n fo flrange a ftyle, Amaze th' unlearn'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...candid light, now loft, which was reflected from them in their natural flate while fincere and entire. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients...fenfe ; Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, 326 Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned fmile. Unlucky, as Fungofo in the Play, •% Thefe fparks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...candid light, now loft, which was reflected from them in their natural ftate while fmcere and entire, Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients...fenfe ; Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, 326 Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned fmile. Unlucky, as Fungofo in the Play, -j Thefe fparks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...like a clown In regal purple drefs'd : For diff'rent ftyles with difPrentfubjecTis fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words...fenfe; Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, 326 Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned fmile, 'No TE 3. fliould not hide, but only heighten... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...clown in regal purple drefs'd ; For different ftyles with diff'rent fubjeds fort, 3:2:5; As fev'ral garbs, with country, town, and court. Some * by old...moderns in their fenfe! Such labour'd nothings in fa ftrange a ftyle, Amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned fmile. 330: Unlucky, as Fungofo in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...like a clown in regal purple drefs'd : For difTrent ftyles with diff Vent fubjefts fort, As feveral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words...pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe ; VER.^II. Fatfe tloqvence 3 like the prifmatic glajs, etc.] This iimile is beautiful. For the falfe... | |
 | John Mason - Preaching - 1750 - 180 pages
...like a clown in royal purple drefs "d; For different ftiles with different fubjefts fort, As feveral garbs, with country, town and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Antients in phrafe, mere moderns in their fenfe ; Such labour'd nothings in fo ftrange a ftyle, Amaze... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...like a clown in regal purple drefs'd; For different ftyles with difPrent fubjefls fort, As fev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words...pretence, Ancients in phrafe, meer moderns in their fenfe; 325 Such labour'd nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, Amaze th' unlcarn'd, and make the learned fniile.... | |
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... whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words... 
