Works in verse and prose - 1806 Author:Alexander Pope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Difcharge their Garrets, move their beds, and run (They know not whither) in a Chaife and one; They p hire their fculler, and when once aboard, Grow fick, and da... more »mn the climate—like a Lord. 160 You laugh, half Beau, half Sloven if I ftand, My wig all powder, and all muff my band; You laugh, if coat and breeches ftrangely vary, White gloves, and linen worthy Lady Mary! But when ' no Prelate's Lawn with hair-fhirt lin'd, Js half fo incoherent as my Mind, 166 -When (each opinion with the next at ilrife, One ' ebb and flow of follies all my life) I ' plant, root up; I build, and then confound j Turn round to fquare, and fquare again to round ; u You never change one mufcle of your face, 171 You think this Madnefs but a common cafe, Nor " once to Chanc'ry, nor to Hale apply ; Yet hang your lip, to fee a Seam awry ! Carelefs how ill I with myfelf agree, 175 Kind to my drefs, my figure, not to Me. ts this my Guide, Philofopher, and Friend ? This he, who loves me, and who ought to mend ? Who ought to make me (what he can, or none) That Man divine whom Wifdom calls her own; 180 Great NOTES. cither, !il thought.he could .have obtained that rank and Ration, which he confidered as due to his transcendental abilities. He ieeuis in no inltance to have afted from Heady principles. He would have compromifed, after George the Frrft was called to , .; lr- ..- ... .. . 'the Cum fis, et prave feftum ftomacheris ob unguem, De te pendentis, te refpicientis amici. Ad fummam, fapiens uno y minor eft Jove, dives 1 Liber," honoratus,b pulcher, c rex denique regum; Praecipue fanus,d nifl cum pituita molefta eft. NOTES. the throne, with any Party, fo he could have gratified his aml/i- tlon, and the lofty idea he entertained of himfelf. When he was in the fcrvice of the Pret...« less