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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the ... - Page 12
by Alexander Pope - 1846
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Satires and Epistles

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat : 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, To some a dry rehearsal...alone (what wonder ?) came not nigh, Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye: But still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he help'd...
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Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat: 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, To some a dry rehearsal...alone (what wonder ?) came not nigh, Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye: But still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he help'd...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat : 210 Till, grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, To some a dry rehearsal was assign VI, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder \) came not nigh, Dryden...
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THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE

WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH - 1873 - 736 pages
...much hia seat, And flatterM everyday, aud some days eat : Till, grown more frugal in his riper days, To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder...still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve." Pope's determination to support the dignity of his character — •...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 153

1873 - 736 pages
...Who first his judgment asked and then a place. To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And t <i ! uis (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what...still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve." Pope's determination to support the dignity of his character— and...
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...flattered 'ev'ry day, and some days eat: Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, To some a dry rehearsal was assigned, And others, harder still, he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh, Dryden...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...bards wilh port, and some with praise To eorae a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder Hill) shall fail; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale; Peace o'er the worl escap'd this judging eye: But still the great have kindness in reserve, Hi- help'd to bury whom he...
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Macmillan's Reading Books

Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat: Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, To some a dry rehearsal...alone (what wonder ?) came not nigh, Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye : But still the great have kindness in reserve, He4ielp'd to bury whom he...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh, Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye : But still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he...
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh, Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye : But still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he...
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