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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    3S7 23S 240 Not fo, when diadem’d with rays divine, Touch’d with theFlame that breaks fromShrine, Her Priertefs Mufe forbids the Good to die. And opes the Temple of Eternity. There, other Trophies deck the truly brave. Than fuch as Anftis calls into the Grave; Far other Stars than ^ and * * wear. And may defcend to Mordington from Stair (Such as on Hough’s unfully’d Mitre fhine. Or beam, good Digby, from a heart like thine) Let En^y howl, while Heav’n’s whole Chorus lings. And bark at Honour not conferr’d by Kings; Let Flattery lick’ning fee the Incenfe rife, 5weet to the World, and grateful to the Skies : Truth guards the Poet, fanflifies the line. And makes immortal, Verfe as mean as mine. Yes, the lall Pen for Freedom let me draw. When Truth (lands trembling on the edge of Law; Here, lad of Britons ! let your names be read ; 250 Are none, none living ? let me praife the Dead, And for that Caufe which made your Fathers Ihine, Fall by the Votes of their degen’rate Line. * HS on Naraur ; where (to ufe his own words) “ il a fait nn Afti-c do “ la Plume blanche que le Roy porte orclinairement a fon Chapeau, “ et qui eft en eftet une efpece de Comete, fatale a nos ennemis.” * Ver. 137. The chief Herald at Arms. It is thecuftoni, at the funeral of great Peers, to caft into the grave the broken ftaves and enfigns of honour. Ver. 239. Stair-,] John Dalryniplc Earl of Stair, Knight of the Thiftle 5 fefved in ail the wars under the Duke of Marlboroueh ■ and afterwards as Arabaflador in France. ’ Ver. 240, 241. Ilotigb and Digby] Dr. John Hough Bi/hop of Worcefter, and the Lord Digby. The one an alfcrtor of the Church of England, in oppofition to the falfe meafures of King James II. The other as firmly attached to the caufe of that King. Both acting out of principle, and equally men of honour and virtue. /