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36544WHO WROTE CAVENDISH''S LIFE OF WOLSEY?
36544But now we come to the question, Who was the Poet''s grandfather, the merchant''s father?
36544But place these by the side of the ancient aristocracy of the country, who have maintained this position for centuries, and what are they?
36544The question is, Was_ this_ Alexander Pope, of Dr. Barcroft''s will, the Alexander Pope who died rector of Thruxton?
36544To her sister Pope she leaves her mother''s picture,--(what has become of this?)
34821Then pray, dear Madam, if you please, be gone;Come you a Spy to make our Counsels known?"
34821A lady once asked Foote,"Pray, Sir, are your puppets to be as large as life?"
34821Dismist-- The Fantoms hover round the Place, And shew their Crimes in Mirrors to their Face?
34821I confess I have had some Help; but what then?
34821If_ Sallust_,_ Horace_,_ Seneca_, and_ He_ Thus in their Morals then so well agree; By what Ingredient is the Difference known?}
34821_ I grant all_ Courses_ are in vain, Unless we can_ get in_ again: The only Way that''s left us now, But all the Difficulty''s_ How?
34821who''d be a L-- d,"If Worth and Merit only Praise afford?
33441***** James Bramston(? 1694- 1743) was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his B.A.
33441And sweat in cloth, to help the_ woollen trade_?
33441Are not his Brother- booksellers the same?
33441But to give Merit due, though_ Curl_''s the same?
33441Can Statutes keep the_ British_ Press in awe, While that sells best, that''s most against the Law?
33441Does it not merit the beholder''s praise, What''s high to sink?
33441How oft has he a publick spirit shewn, And pleas''d our ears regardless of his own?
33441How oft have I with admiration stood, To view some City- magistrate in wood?
33441How oft, when eminent physicians fail, Do good old womens remedies prevail?
33441I''ll have my Gardens in the fashion too, For what is beautiful that is not new?
33441I''ll please the maids of honour, if I can; Without black- velvet- britches, what is man?
33441Say thou that do''st thy father''s table praise, Was there_ Mahogena_ in former days?
33441Shall I wear cloaths, in_ awkward England_ made?
33441Shame, Pain, or Poverty shall I endure, When ropes or opium can my ease procure?
33441What brought Sir Visto''s ill got wealth to waste?
33441Who in_ Whitehall_ can symmetry discern?
33441_ Are These Things So?_( 1740), and_ The Great Man''s Answer to Are These Things So?_( 1740).
33441_ Are These Things So?_( 1740), and_ The Great Man''s Answer to Are These Things So?_( 1740).
33441and what is low to raise?
19654What''s that?
19654Ah, why, ye gods, should two and two make four?
19654And guide my wavering mind By wand''ring birds that flit with every wind?
19654And if, as now seemed clear, Curll was speaking the truth, the question remained, who was P. T., and how did he get the letters?
19654But why should''st thou suspect the war''s success?
19654Did I not see thee when thou first sett''st sail, To seek adventures fair in Homer''s land?
19654Did I not see thy sinking spirits fail, And wish thy bark had never left the strand?
19654Each dives in a way supposed to be characteristic, Oldmixon with the pathetic exclamation, And am I now threescore?
19654How could any man be angry with a writer of gentle pastorals and versified love- letters?
19654How could they be got before the world, and in such a way as to conceal his own complicity?
19654How were the letters procured?
19654How, then, could Pope obtain even an appearance of success?
19654How, then, should we estimate the merits of this remarkable work?
19654Is Etna to cease an eruption to spare a sage, or should"new motions be impressed upon sea and air"for the advantage of blameless Bethel?
19654Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres''head reserve the hanging- wall?
19654Pope asks whether we are to demand the suspension of laws of nature whenever they might produce a mischievous result?
19654Pope''s view of his own career suggests the curious problem: how it came to pass that so harmless a man should be the butt of so many hostilities?
19654The leading sign, the irrevocable nod And happy thunders of the favouring God?
19654These shall I slight?
19654To him then Hector with disdain return''d;( Fierce as he spoke, his eyes with fury burn''d)-- Are these the faithful counsels of thy tongue?
19654What though no sacred earth allow thee room, Nor hallow''d dirge be mutter''d o''er thy tomb?
19654What though no weeping loves thy ashes grace, Nor polish''d marble emulate thy face?
19654What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide?
19654When the loose mountain trembles from on high Shall gravitation cease, if you go by?
19654Who could the thief have been?
19654Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
19654Who, he asks,-- First taught souls enslaved and realms undone, The enormous faith of many made for one?
19654You think this cruel?
19654who?
30421''What lady''s that to whom he gently bends?
30421''When I have seen a pretty mouth uttering calumnies and invectives, what would I not have given to have stopt it?
30421''Who has not trembled at the Mohock''s name?''
30421''_ Hyl._ Supposing you were annihilated, can not you conceive it possible that things perceivable by sense may still exist?
30421But pray,"says he,"you that are a critic, is this play according to your dramatic rules, as you call them?
30421But what means This stinted charity?
30421By a false heart and broken vows, In early youth I die; Was I to blame because his bride Was thrice as rich as I?
30421Can anyone doubt that the believer would be scandalized, and the scoffer find himself in a thoroughly congenial element?
30421Do you not?
30421Give me the world, and ask me, where''s my bliss?
30421Is not life to be over to- morrow?
30421Is not this enough to make a writer never be tender of another''s character or fame?''
30421Jane and Dudley, it must be premised, are imprisoned in a gloomy hall:''What can they do?
30421Should your people in tragedy always talk to be understood?
30421So he dies, and the first question asked is,''What has he left and who''s his heir?''
30421The Queen so gracious, mild, and good, Cries,"Is he gone?
30421The duke, though knave, still''brother dear,''he cries; And who can say the reverend prelate lies?
30421Their prudence in a share of folly lies; Why will they be so weak as to be wise?''
30421Then tell us what is Fame, where shall we search for it?
30421What can preserve my life?
30421What can''st thou look upon unblessed by thee?
30421What is this province of which he is the sole ruler?
30421What more then, it may be asked, can be needed?
30421What then is Pope''s ground?
30421What though no sacred earth allow thee room, Nor hallowed dirge be muttered o''er thy tomb?
30421What though no weeping Loves thy ashes grace, Nor polished marble emulate thy face?
30421Where is the dust that has not been alive?
30421While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country''s cause?''
30421Who knows not her?
30421Why might you not Tell us what''tis to die?
30421Would not any believer shrink from the use of such weapons, even though directed against his enemies?
30421Would you have any more reasons?
30421Yonder I see the cheerful Duchess stand, For friendship, zeal, and blithesome humours known; Whence that loud shout in such a hearty strain?
30421and harping on the same theme in the ninth book, says:''What is the world itself?
30421asks in return,''If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?''
30421or what destroy?
30421will none of you, in pity To those you left behind, disclose the secret?
38275Before the Lord and his Anointed sayWhose_ Rights_ or_ Honours_ have I ta''en away?
38275Of what vile_ Contract_ was I e''er the Scribe,Or of whose Hands have I receiv''d a_ Bribe_?
38275Or what_ C-- n----n_ e''re devise abroadBut such as_ Britain_''s Se-- e did applaud?
38275Or what_ Incumbrance_ on her_ Commerce_ laid,But for th''Increase of_ our_ Revenues made?
38275WHEREAS it has been generally reported that I am the Author of a Poem, lately publish''d, entitled ARE THESE THINGS SO? 38275 What of my_ Country_''s Money e''er bestow''d"Except in_ secret Service_ for her Good?
38275What then?
38275What_ Scheme_ did ever I at Home proposeBut whence some_ nameless_ Profit would have rose?
38275Whom, speak, have I_ defrauded_ or_ oppress_''d,Or ever pilfer''d_ Forage_ from whose Beast?
38275( The Second Edition, corrected; with the Addition of twenty lines omitted in the former Impressions) Are these things so?
38275***** According to the title page,_ The Great Man''s Answer_ is by the same author as_ Are these things so?_.
38275***** In_ Are these things so?_ Pope is imagined to be speaking throughout, although he in turn imagines what Walpole might say at various points.
382751740 THE GREAT MAN''S ANSWER TO Are these Things So?
38275A Supplement to a late excellent Poem, entitled Are these things so?"
38275A proper Answer to Are these things so?
38275A_ sland''rous Picture_ drawn in Soot and Gall?
38275And had they not, pray,_ still_, But that they greatly scorn''d to_ league_ with those, Who were at once their King''s and Country''s Foes?
38275Are these Things So?
38275Are these Things so?
38275Are these things so?
38275Are they, quite lost to Empire and Renown, Bemus''d at Home, or sunk in_ foreign Down_?
38275As for your_ may_ and_ may_, Sir,--_may be Not_, Can my_ vast Services_ be_ There_ forgot?
38275By the author of Are these things so?"
38275Do then her Pow''rs this drowsy Sabbath keep?
38275For Pope''s ironic application of the epithet"sturdy"( l. 164, p. 9) to the London Merchants see the notes to_ Are these things so?_.
38275From this obdurate Rock whence flow those Tears?
38275If so, why lives the Scandal?
38275Is She now sunk to such_ low Degree_, That_ Gaul_ or_ Spain_ must_ limit_ out her_ Sea_?
38275Is there no Trump will rouse''em from their Sleep?
38275It is Walpole who has come to answer the questions asked in_ Are these things so?_.
38275M._ Mighty well; but when are they to go?}
38275M._ Nay then you''ll crush''em quite?--But are you sure, There is a_ Spirit_, Sir?
38275M._ No Sir, I''m_ your Slave_, Or soon shall be.--How then must I behave?
38275M._ That''s Cobweb Sophistry-- Did they not fill The noblest Posts?
38275M._ Well, Sir, but why On my dear Family and Friends this Cry?
38275M._ What He?
38275M._ What Spirit pray?
38275M._ What''s That approaches,_ John_?
38275M._ When?
38275May I my Eyes believe?
38275Must I fall prostrate at your Feet?
38275Occasion''d by two late Poems, the one entitled Are these things so?
38275Occasioned by a Pamphlet intituled Are these things so?
38275Offspring of Disappointment or Disgrace, Of Those who_ want_ or who have_ lost_ a_ Place_?
38275Or is it Fiction all?
38275Or, is it true, what Fame pretends to say, That You, Sir, are the_ Author_ of To- day?
38275Should not so vast a_ Body_ have a_ Head_?
38275Stoop to the_ rough_ Remonstrance of the_ Toe_?
38275THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY Are these Things So?
38275THE GREAT MAN''S ANSWER TO Are these Things So?
38275That She must ask_ what Winds_ her Sails shall fill, And steer by_ Bounty_ who once steer''d_ at Will_?
38275That You''re the fatal Cause of_ Britain_''s Shame, The_ Spend- thrift_ of her Freedom and her Fame?
38275Therefore I put this_ Question_ to your Heart,---- Speak, Culprit--_Are you Guilty_?
38275To the last gasp maintain a baneful Power Only to see your Country die before?
38275Well, What of that?
38275Well, if this wo n''t do, What think you of a_ Pension_?
38275What Things?
38275Whence these big Drops that Ooze from ev''ry Shell?
38275Why should you torture out your Dregs of Life, In publick Tumult, Infamy and Strife?
38275Yes, they are: Being an answer to Are these things so?"
38275[ 19]_ Are these things so?_ has been far more frequently attributed to Miller than_ The Great Man''s Answer_.
38275[ 20] Robert Watt also lists_ Are these things so?_ as Miller''s work in his_ Bibliotheca Britannica_, Edinburgh, 1824.
38275[ 32] In choosing Pope for his spokesman the author of_ Are these things so?_ showed a full awareness of the political realities.
38275[ Illustration: Decoration] Are these Things So?
38275[ Illustration: Decoration] Are these Things So?
38275[ Illustration: Decoration] THE GREAT MAN''s ANSWER TO Are these Things So?
38275_ Are these things so?_, for example, is listed in the Monthly Catalogue for November.
38275_ FINIS_[ Illustration: Decoration] THE GREAT MAN''s ANSWER TO Are these Things So?
38275_ Qui capit_---- By the Author of_ Are these Things So?__ LONDON:_ Printed for T. Cooper, at the_ Globe_ in_ Paternoster- Row_.
38275mere stuff-- What would be done?
38275should not the_ Blind_ be led?
38275what Tempest shakes my Cell?
38275yet nothing,_ nothing_ done?
33080( May I not believe by yourself?)
33080------_Take it for a Rule, No Creature smarts so little as a Fool._ Now if this be true, to what purpose did you correct them?
33080And pray, Sir, why my Name, under this scurvy Picture?
33080And what Part of this Play, Sir, can you charge with a Theft either from any_ French_ Author, from_ Plautus_,_ Fletcher_,_ Congreve_, or_ Corneille_?
33080But as he seems, notwithstanding, to have taken Offence from it, how well does this Soreness of Temper agree with what he elsewhere says of himself?
33080But if Solitude pleases you, who shall say you are not in the right to enjoy it?
33080But pray, Gentlemen, said I, if, as you seem to believe, his Defamation has more of Malice than Truth in it, does he not blacken himself by it?
33080But what''s all this to you, Mr._ Pope_?
33080But why am I answerable for that?
33080Come then, let us see what your mighty Mountain is in Labour of?
33080Did he at all intrench upon your Sovereignty in Verse, because he had now and then written a Comedy that succeeded?
33080How comes it then, that in your Works you have so often treated him as a Dunce or an Enemy?
33080How easily now can you see the Folly in another, which you yourself are so fond of?
33080I hope your Temper is not so unhappy as to be offended, or in pain, when your Insults are return''d with Civilities?
33080If either of us could be_ good_ Company, our being professed Poets, I hope would be no Objection to my Lord''s sometimes making one with us?
33080If this is not a greater Tyranny than that of your_ Atticus_, at least you must allow it more ridiculous: For what have you gain''d by it?
33080In a word, you seem in your_ Dunciad_, to have been angry at the rain for wetting you, why then would you go into it?
33080Is a Tailor, that can make a new Coat well, the worse Workman, because he can mend an old one?
33080Might it not have been taken in a more favourable Sense by any Man of the least Candour or Humanity?
33080No, you could not, sure, believe, the World would take it for granted, that_ every_ low, vile Thing you had said of me, was evidently_ true_?
33080Now let us enquire into the Justness of this Pretence, and whether Dulness in one Author gives another any right to abuse him for it?
33080Or could not you bear, that any kind of Poetry, but that, to which you chiefly pretended, should meet with Applause?
33080Or do those alter''d Plays at all take from the Merit of those more successful Pieces, which were entirely my own?
33080Or had it not rather been a Mark of your Justice and Generosity, not to have pursued me with fresh Instances of your Ill- will upon it?
33080Or would any sober Reader have seen more in the Line, than a wide mouthful of Ill- Manners?
33080Or would my Impudence be less Impudence in Verse than in Prose?
33080Or would my professing myself a Satyrist give me a Title to wipe my foul Pen upon the Face of every Man I did not like?
33080Ought I, for this, to have had the stale Affront of_ Dull_, and_ Impudent_, repeated upon me?
33080The question then becomes: why did he continually provoke Cibber, knowing the latter had such a story at hand?
33080This I grant may be Vanity in me to say: But if what I believe is true, what a slovenly Conscience do you shew your Face with?
33080Under this Class at least, you acquit him of having ever provoked you?
33080Well, Sir, and am not I very well off, if you have nothing worse to say of me?
33080Were these both wanting, as they both abound, Where could so firm integrity be found?
33080What a merry mixt Mortal has Nature made you?
33080What ought I to expect less, than that you would knock me down for it?
33080What then must be the Consequence?
33080Where could they find another formed so fit, To poise, with solid sense, a sprightly wit?
33080Why then might it not be suppos''d an equal Truth, that Both our Assertions were equally false?
33080Why then should I give myself the trouble to prove, what you, and the World are already convinc''d of?
33080_ Are these Things So?_( 1740), and_ The Great Man''s Answer to Are these Things So?_( 1740).
33080_ Are these Things So?_( 1740), and_ The Great Man''s Answer to Are these Things So?_( 1740).
33080because, like you Dear_ Pope,_ too Bold in shewing it._ And so, if I am the King''s Fool; now, Sir, pray whose Fool are you?
33080has Poet yet, or Peer, Lost the arched Eye- brow, or_ Parnassian_ Sneer?
33080how could a Man of your stinging Capacity let so tame, so low a Reflexion escape him?
33080or could it have lessen''d the Honour of your Understanding, to have taken this quiet Resentment of your frequent ill Usage in good part?
33080or in private Company?
33080or so vainly uncharitable as to value yourself for laughing at my Folly, in supposing you never had any real malicious Intention against me?
33080or, admitting, that my deceived Opinion of your Goodness was so much real Simplicity and Ignorance, was not even That, at least, pardonable?
33080then_ why_ so, good Mr._ Pope_?
33080unless the happy Weakness of my Person might be my Protection?
33080why may not you as well turn this pleasant Epigram into an involuntary Compliment?
33080would his high Heart be contented, in his having the Choice of his Acquaintance so limited?
6314And was this his only observation? 6314 And what was it?"
6314Capable, for instance, of suing and being sued?
6314Do you conceive Dumpkins to have been a thing or a person?
6314How so? 6314 What is your secret opinion of Dumpkins?"
6314What was it?
6314--was not he an elevated character?
6314A French heart it must be, or how should it follow with its sympathies a French movement?
6314A favorite of nature, so eminent in some directions, by what right could he complain that her bounties were not indiscriminate?
6314And how did he surmount this unhappy self- distrust?
6314And in all Christendom, who, let us ask, who, who but Shakspeare has found the power for effectually working this mysterious mode of being?
6314And of what consequence in whose hands were the reins which were never needed?
6314And to whom was the Bible an indispensable resource, if not to Lamb?
6314And was it upon Shakspeare only, or upon him chiefly, that he lavished his pedantry?
6314And where was such an education to be sought?
6314At this moment, for instance, how could geology be treated otherwise than childishly by one who should rely upon the encyclopaedias of 1800?
6314But on this arose the suggestion-- Why not execute an insurance of this nature twenty times over?
6314But perhaps Voltaire might dislike Pope?
6314But then revolves the question, why must we laugh?
6314But waiving this, let us ask, what is meant by"correctness?"
6314But was this, as Steevens most disingenuously pretends, to be taken as an exponent of the public feeling towards Shakspeare?
6314But were they undisputed masters?
6314But which?
6314But why not have printed it intelligibly as 1741?
6314But why should W. wear boots in Westmoreland?
6314But why?
6314But why?
6314Correctness in what?
6314Did Mr. Lamb not strengthen this remark by some other of the same nature?"
6314Do we mean, then, that a childish error could permanently master his understanding?
6314Do we mean, then, to compare Addison with an idiot?
6314Does a man at Paris expect to see Moliere reproduced in proportion to his admitted precedency in the French drama?
6314Else how came Spenser''s life and fortunes to be so utterly overwhelmed in oblivion?
6314For instance, it was then always said that Charles I had suffered on the 30th of January 1648/9, and why?
6314For instance,"Can you tell pork from veal in the dark, or distinguish Sherries from pure Malaga?
6314How are we to account, then, for that deluge, as if from Lethe, which has swept away so entirely the traditional memorials of one so illustrious?
6314How is all this to be explained?
6314How will he comfort himself after her death?
6314If so, whence came Rowe''s edition, Pope''s, Theobald''s, Sir Thomas Hanmer''s, Bishop Warburton''s, all upon the heels of one another?
6314If the public indeed were universally duped by the paper, what motive had Philips for resentment?
6314If this were accident, how marvellous that the same insanity should possess the two great capitals of Christendom in the same year?
6314If, again, it were not accident, but due to some common cause, why is not that cause explained?
6314In connecting it, or effecting the transitions?
6314In developing the thought?
6314In the grammar?
6314In the metre?
6314In the use of words?
6314Is it no happiness to escape the hands of scoundrel reviewers?
6314Is this coat- of- arms, then, Sir Thomas Lucy''s?
6314Is_ that_ nothing?
6314Lamb?"
6314Let us put a case; suppose that Goethe''s death had occurred fifty years ago, that is, in the year 1785, what would have been the general impression?
6314Like the general rules of justice,& c., in ethics, to which every man assents; but when the question comes about any practical case,_ is_ it just?
6314Milton only,--and why?
6314Napoleon started when he beheld her,_ Qui etes vous_?
6314Now what proof has Mr. Malone adduced, that the acres of Asbies were not as valuable as those of Tugton?
6314Now, if the child died naturally, all was right; but how, if the child did_ not_ die?
6314Or, in any case, what plea had he for attacking Pope, who had not come forward as the author of the essay?
6314Our translation is this:"Here lies Piron; who was-- nothing; or, if_ that_ could be, was less: How!--nothing?
6314Singly, what am I to do?
6314Some readers will inquire, who paid for the printing and paper,& c.?
6314These calls upon the moral powers, which in music so stormy, many a life is doomed to hear, how were they faced?
6314This heart, with this double capacity-- where should he seek it?
6314This will be admitted; but would it not have been better to draw the income without the toil?
6314This would take leave of the reader with effect; but how was it to be introduced?
6314Very well; but why then must we weep?
6314Was Addison''s neglect representative of a general neglect?
6314Was Mr. Hazlitt then of that class?
6314Was he a Frenchman, or was he not?
6314Was this man, so memorably good by life- long sacrifice of himself, in any profound sense a Christian?
6314Wesley--[have you read his life?]
6314What are we to think of this document?
6314What did he mean by that?
6314What energies did it task?
6314What if he does?
6314What kind of woman is''t?
6314What may we assume to have been the value of its fee- simple?
6314What peace is possible under the curse which even now is gathering against your heads?
6314What temptations did it unfold?
6314What trials did it impose?
6314What years?
6314What_ was_ that wickedness?
6314Whither, indeed, could he fly for comfort, if not to his Bible?
6314Why must we laugh?
6314With such prospects, what need of an elaborate education?
6314Would Europe have been sensible even of the event?
6314Would Europe have felt a shock?
6314Yet the editors of Pope, as well as many other writers, have confused their readers by this double date; and why?
6314Yet,_ as_ a part of futurity, how is it connected with our present times?
6314at what era?
6314is it possible to obtain your attention?"
6314under what exciting cause?