What is prudery? ‘Tis a bledam, Seen with wit and beauty seldom. ‘Tis a fear that starts at shadows. Tis, (no, ’tisn’t) like Miss Meadows. ‘Tis a virgin hard…
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An Essay On Man: Epistle IV. By Alexander Pope
ARGUMENT. OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HAPPINESS. I. False notions of happiness, philosophical and popular, answered from ver. 19 to…
An Essay On Man: Epistle III. By Alexander Pope
ARGUMENT. OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY. I. The whole universe one system of society, ver. 7, &c. Nothing made…
An Essay On Man: Epistle II. By Alexander Pope
ARGUMENT. OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL. I. The business of Man not to pry into God,…
An Essay On Man: Epistle I. By Alexander Pope
THE DESIGN. Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon’s expression) come home to men’s…
An Essay On Criticism By Alexander Pope
I That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a…
A Prologue – To A Play For Mr Dennis’s Benefit, In 1733, When He Was Old, Blind, And In Great Distress, A Little Before His Death. By Alexander Pope
As when that hero, who, in each campaign, Had braved the Goth, and many a Vandal slain, Lay fortune-struck, a spectacle of woe! Wept by each friend, forgiven…
A Fragment. By Alexander Pope
What are the falling rills, the pendant shades, The morning bowers, the evening colonnades, But soft recesses for th’ uneasy mind To sigh unheard in, to the passing…
A Fragment Of A Poem. By Alexander Pope
O Wretched B—-,[90]jealous now of all, What god, what mortal shall prevent thy fall? Turn, turn thy eyes from wicked men in place, And see what succour from…
A Farewell To London By Alexander Pope
IN THE YEAR 1715. 1 Dear, damn’d, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I’ll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!…