Volume 1

The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements ... printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton / [Alexander Pope].

  • Alexander Pope
Date:
1787-1788
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Credit: The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements ... printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton / [Alexander Pope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No zealous Pallor blame a falling Spoufe,. Without a daring Reafon on his brows ? And each Blalphemer quite efcape the rod, I95\ Becaufe the infult’s not on Man, but God ? Aik you what Provocation I have had h The Ilrong Antipathy of Good to Bad. When Truth or Virtue an Affront endures, Th’Affront is mine, my friend, and fnould.be yours* Mine, as a Foe profefs’d to falfe Pretence, 201 Who think a Coxcomb’s Honour like his Senfe ; Mine, as a Friend to ev’ry worthy mind ; And mine as Man, who feel for all Mankind. F. You’re ftrangely proud. P. So proud, I am no Slave : So impudent, I own myfelf no Knave : 206 So odd, my Country’s Ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud 5 I mud be proud to fee Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, 21& Yet touch’d, and fham’d by,Ridicule alone. O facred weapon ! left for Truth’s defence,. Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Infolence 1 To all but Heav’n-direided hands deny’d. The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods mud guide ^ Ver. 304. mine as Man, nuho feel far all Mank\nd.'\ From Terence : “ Homo fum : humaAi nihil a me alienum puto. ^ Ver. 208. Tes, Lam proud, etc.] In this ironical exultation th« Poet infinuates a fubjedt of the deepell humiliation. u r Ver. 211. Tct touch'd andfham'd by Ridicule alone.] The Pa - fions are given us to awaken and fupport Virtue. But they re- quently betray their trnft, and go over to the intcrefts of Kidicule, when employed in the caufe of Virtue, Ihanies and brings them back, to their duty. Hence the ufe and importance of Sfjre. Ver. 214. To all but Hea'u'n-direSied bands] “ The Citi2en “ (fays Plato, in his fifth book of Laws) who does'no injury to ‘‘ any one, without queftion, merits our elteem. He who, not content with being barely juff, hinafeh, appofci the courfc of lU- 4