Alexander Pope

A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper.

Fragrance

The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around.

Fraud

If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.

Freakish

Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.

Fret

Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret.

Fritter

Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.

Front

Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.

Function

As the mind opens, and its functions spread.

Gain

For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease.

Gather

Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.

When small humors gather to a gout.

Gay

Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

Get

To get rid of fools and scoundrels.

Giddy

The giddy motion of the whirling mill.

Gild

No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.

Gillhouse

Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn.

Give

Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.

This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.

Glad

Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.

Glade

There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.

Glare

She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

Gleam

In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.

Gleamy

In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way.

Glean

Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate.

Glow

Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

Goal

Each individual seeks a several goal.

Golden

Angels guard him in the golden mean.

Grace

Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.

Graft

And graft my love immortal on thy fame !

Grateful

Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine, And grateful clusters swell.

Graze

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.

Green

In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.

Guess

First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess.

But in known images of life I guess The labor greater.

Guest

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Guise

The swain replied, “It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”

Gust

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.

Hack

On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.

Half-heard

And leave half-heard the melancholy tale.

Hang

His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung.

Happily

Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.

Happiness

Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care.

O happiness! our being's end and aim!

Happy

The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.

Harmonic

Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass.

Harshness

'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Haul

Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.

Heave

And the huge columns heave into the sky.

Heir

And I his heir in misery alone.

Help

I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author.

Helpless

How shall I then your helpless fame defend?

Hesitate

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

Hew

Rather polishing old works than hewing out new.

Hide

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.

Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide.

Hint

Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike.

historic

There warriors frowning in historic brass.

History

What histories of toil could I declare!

Justly Cæsar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for praise.

Hit

What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit.

Hitch

Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.

Hoist

They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.

Homage

I sought no homage from the race that write.

Homely

Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains.

Honest

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Hood

The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.

Hook

Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook.

Hoop

Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale.

Horrid

The horrid things they say.

Horror

Breathes a browner horror on the woods.

Hum

Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep.

Human

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Humor

You humor me when I am sick.

Hurl

And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main.

If

Tisiphone, that oft hast heard my prayer, Assist, if Œdipus deserve thy care.

Ignipotent

Vulcan is called the powerful ignipotent.

Illiteracy

The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works.

Illusion

Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise!

Image

Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.

Imminent

No story I unfold of public woes, Nor bear advices of impending foes.

Impair

In years he seemed, but not impaired by years.

Impassive

On the impassive ice the lightings play.

Impatient

Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise.

Impeccability

Infallibility and impeccability are two of his attributes.

Impel

The surge impelled me on a craggy coast.

Impend

Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends.

Impending

And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall.

Imperfect

Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

Implicit

In his woolly fleece I cling implicit.

Implore

Imploring all the gods that reign above.

Importance

Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

Improper

And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill.

Impurple

The silken fleece impurpled for the loom.

Inattention

Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears.

Incase

Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase.

Incitement

From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage.

Inclemency

The inclemencies of morning air.

Inclement

The guard the wretched from the inclement sky.

Incorrect

The piece, you think, is incorrect.

Independence

Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Independency

“Give me,” I cried (enough for me), “My bread, and independency!”

Indite

Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.

Indolent

To waste long nights in indolent repose.

Induce

The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad.

Indulge

Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!

Infection

Through all her train the soft infection ran.

Inform

Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part.

Informer

Nature, informer of the poet's art.

Infrangible

[He] link'd their fetlocks with a golden band Infrangible.

Inhume

Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain.

Inject

And mound inject on mound.

Innocent

The spear Sung innocent, and spent its force in air.

Inscribe

Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone.

O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone.

Insincere

To render sleep's soft blessings insincere.

Inspire

Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, The breathing instruments inspire.

Inspirit

The courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by the love of empire and ambition.

Instant

Instant he flew with hospitable haste.

Instructive

In various talk the instructive hours they past.

Insuperable

And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line?

Intercept

While storms vindictive intercept the shore.

Interest

When interest calls of all her sneaking train.

Interpolate

The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose.

Intersperse

There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades.

Involve

The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng.

Iron

Jove crushed the nations with an iron rod.

Irritate

Dismiss the man, nor irritate the god: Prevent the rage of him who reigns above.

It

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grows romantic, I must paint it.

Jingle

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.

Job

And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

Jog

Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side.

Joint

Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.

Joke

And gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Inclose whole downs in walls, 't is all a joke.

Joyful

Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.

Judgment

Who first his judgment asked, and then a place.

Just

Just of thy word, in every thought sincere.

Killing

Those eyes are made so killing.

Kindly

In soft silence shed the kindly shower.

Knack

For how should equal colors do the knack !

Knighthood

If you needs must write, write Caesar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays.

knocker

Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead.

Knotty

A knotty point to which we now proceed

Labor

The line too labors, and the words move slow.

Laconic

I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.

Lamented

This humble praise, lamented shade ! receive.

Language

Others for language all their care express.

Languish

Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life.

And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.

Last

And blunder on in business to the last.

Laugh

In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy.

No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.

Launch

With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.

Laureate

Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

Lave

In her chaste current oft the goddess laves.

Lawless

Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void.

Lawn

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

Leave

Now leave complaining and begin your tea.

Leer

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer.

Lenient

Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand.

Lesser

The larger here, and there the lesser lambs.

Libel

Some wicked wits have libeled all the fair.

Life

'T is from high life high characters are drawn.

The warm life came issuing through the wound.

Light

O, spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born !

Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead.

Lightly

Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast.

Limit

As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.

Lisp

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.

List

In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.

Lively

From grave to gay, from lively to severe.

Lodging

Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow.

Lofty

See lofty Lebanon his head advance.

Logician

Each fierce logician still expelling Locke.

Lone

Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.

Lop

Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.

Lose

Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

Lot

He was but born to try The lot of man -- to suffer and to die.

Lowly

One common right the great and lowly claims.

Lucre

The lust of lucre and the dread of death.

Luxuriant

Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine.

Machinery

The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem.

Madden

They rave, recite, and madden round the land.

Man

The proper study of mankind is man.

Martyr

Racked with sciatics, martyred with the stone.

Marvelous

The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially the machines of the gods.

Masquerade

In courtly balls and midnight masquerades.

Massy

Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly.

Mature

How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age?

Maul

Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul.

Mawkish

So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull.

May

Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance.

Meet

Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.

Memorial

There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.

Merit

To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own.

Mettle

The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.

Microscopic

Why has not man a microscopic eye?

Mid

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings.

Mien

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.

Milky

Pails high foaming with a milky flood.

Misrule

Enormous riot and misrule surveyed.

Missile

We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart.

Moan

Sullen moans, hollow groans.

Mob

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Mockery

And bear about the mockery of woe.

Moderation

In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.

Mold

Crowned with an architrave of antique mold.

Monumental

A work outlasting monumental brass.

With open arms received one poet more.

Mortal

Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

Mortality

Take these tears, mortality's relief.

Mount

Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.

Mourn

Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.

Mum

The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum.

Muse

Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing?

Mutter

Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.

Narrative

But wise through time, and narrative with age.

Nature

But looks through nature up to nature's God.

Have we not seen The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, Through violated nature force his way?

Nepenthe

Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court.

Never

Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.

New

New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace.

Nice

Curious not knowing, not exact but nice.

The difference is too nice Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice.

Niggard

Be niggards of advice on no pretense.

Night

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.

Nimble

Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails.

Nod

Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Number

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.

Nutation

So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads.

Nutrition

Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Oar

Oared with laboring arms.

Obedient

The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command.

Object

Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies.

Obliquely

Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray.

Obscenity

No pardon vile obscenity should find.

Observant

Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd.

Observation

To observations which ourselves we make We grow more partial for the observer's sake.

Observe

I have barely quoted . . . without observing upon it.

Obstinate

No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate.

Obstruct

'T is the obstructed paths of sound shall clear.

Obvious

Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye.

Offer

When offers are disdained, and love denied.

Oft

Oft she rejects, but never once offends.

Omnipotence

Will Omnipotence neglect to save The suffering virtue of the wise and brave?

Onward

Not one looks backward, onward still he goes.

Open

With aspect open, shall erect his head.

Oppressive

To ease the soul of one oppressive weight.

Optic

The difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the object seen.

Oracular

They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.

Organ

The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow.

Outbid

Prevent the greedy, and outbid the bold.

Owe

O deem thy fall not owed to man's decree.

Pack

And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

Pageant

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!

Paint

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Pair

Glossy jet is paired with shining white.

Palate

Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.

Paleness

The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look.

Pant

Who pants for glory finds but short repose.

The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.

Parallel

Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ?

None but thyself can be thy parallel.

parody

I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace.

Part

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee.

Passion

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Pat

Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite.

Patriot

Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.

Pay

Where only merit constant pay receives.

Pendant

Some hang upon the pendants of her ear.

Penetrate

Born where Heaven's influence scarce can penetrate.

Pension

One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles.

Pensive

Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed.

Perfume

And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies.

No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field.

Perplex

No artful wildness to perplex the scene.

Persist

Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so.

Pervious

[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way.

Petrify

And petrify a genius to a dunce.

Phalanx

The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower.

Phantom

Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise.

Phlegm

They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm.

Piecemeal

Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that.

Pierian

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Pinion

Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome.

Pious

Where was the martial brother's pious care?

Pirate

They advertised they would pirate his edition.

Plastic

See plastic Nature working to his end.

Platform

lf the platform just reflects the order.

Play

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play!

All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.

Plot

If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

Plow

With speed we plow the watery way.

Point

Commas and points they set exactly right.

Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them.

Pointed

His moral pleases, not his pointed wit.

Polite

He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.

Portion

And portion to his tribes the wide domain.

Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.

Positive

Some positive, persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always.

Post

I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

Pour

Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ?

Practice

As this advice ye practice or neglect.

Prate

Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate.

Precipitant

Should he return, that troop so blithe and bold, Precipitant in fear would wing their flight.

Prefer

He spake, and to her hand preferred the bowl.

Preëminence

Painful preëminence! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too.

Prenticeship

He served a prenticeship who sets up shop.

Present

So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.

Press

Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms.

Prevent

Their ready guilt preventing thy commands.

Price

'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil.

Print

From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth.

Project

Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.

Promiscuous

A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot.

Prompt

And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams.

Prop

Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.

I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.

Proper

The proper study of mankind is man.

Propitiate

Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.

Prospect

These swell their prospectsd exalt their pride, When offers are disdain'd, and love deny'd.

Prostitute

No hireling she, no prostitute to praise.

Pudding

And solid pudding against empty praise.

Pungent

The pungent grains of titillating dust.

Puppet

At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance.

Purl

Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills.

Purposely

So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong.

Pyre

For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.

Query

Each prompt to query, answer, and debate.

Quicken

And keener lightnings quicken in her eye.

Race

I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race.

Racer

And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize.

Racy

The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light.

Range

Far as creation's ample range extends.

Rap

Rapt into future times, the bard begun.

Rapture

You grow correct that once with rapture writ.

Rattle

Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Ray

All eyes direct their rays On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.

Reach

Before this letter reaches your hands.

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.

Reconcile

Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace.

Redden

Appius reddens at each word you speak.

Reecho

And a loud groan reechoes from the main.

Reel

He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest.

Refine

But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines!

Regret

Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear.

Reign

He who like a father held his reign.

Rejoin

Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot.

Rejudge

Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace.

Relax

His knees relax with toil.

Relent

When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray.

Relic

Thy relics, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred place by Dryden's awful dust.

Relish

It preserve some relish of old writing.

Relume

Relumed her ancient light, not kindled new.

Remain

Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains!

Remembrance

This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear.

Remurmur

The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood.

Renown

The bard whom pilfered pastorals renown.

Rent

So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do.

Repair

Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair.

Repel

Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide.

Repine

What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?

Reproof

Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Repulsive

Repulsive of his might the weapon stood.

Resigned

A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resigned.

Resolve

Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse?

Resound

Albion's cliffs resound the ruray.

The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound.

Responsive

The vocal lay responsive to the strings.

Result

The huge round stone, resulting with a bound.

Retrospective

The sage, with retrospective eye.

Return

He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned.

Reverse

And then mistook reverse of wrong for right.

These can divide, and these reverse, the state.

Review

Shall I the long, laborious scene review?

Rhyme

There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.

Ridicule

Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.

Rifle

Till time shall rifle every youthful grace.

Right

“Right,” cries his lordship.

Ring

With sweeter notes each rising temple rung.

Riot

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day.

No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.

Rise

Honor and shame from no condition rise.

No more shall nation against nation rise.

Robe

The sage Chaldeans robed in white appeared.

Rogue

The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise.

Roll

Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled.

Rot

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Rouse

Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.

Morpheus rouses from his bed.

Rubric

What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?

Ruff

I reared this flower; . . . Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread.

Rule

His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.

Run

She saw with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.

Rustic

Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away.

Ruthless

Their rage the hostile bands restrain, All but the ruthless monarch of the main.

Sabbath

Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb.

Sacrilegious

Above the reach of sacrilegious hands.

Sadden

Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.

Sail

Sublime she sails The aerial space, and mounts the wingèd gales.

Saint

Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.

Sanctify

Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.

Satiate

Content with science in the vale of peace.

Saturnian

Augustus, born to bring Saturnian times.

Save

Now save a nation, and now save a groat.

Scandalously

Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice.

Scanty

Now scantier limits the proud arch confine.

Scholarship

A man of my master's . . . great scholarship.

Science

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Scoundrel

Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.

Scour

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.

Scream

And scream thyself as none e'er screamed before.

Scribble

If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite.

Seam

Seamed o'er with wounds which his own saber gave.

Second

In human works though labored on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second too some other use.

Seek

Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.

Seize

Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul.

Self

A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world.

Self-approving

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.

Self-love

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.

Sensual

Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends.

Sentence

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.

Sentiment

Alike to council or the assembly came, With equal souls and sentiments the same.

Seraph

As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns.

Serene

The moon serene in glory mounts the sky.

Serenely

Now setting Phœbus shone serenely bright.

Servile

Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!

Several

Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.

Shade

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue.

Shame

Honor and shame from no condition rise.

Shapeless

The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice.

Shapely

Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn.

Sharp-set

The town is sharp-set on new plays.

Shears

Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain.

Shelter

The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade.

Shine

Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.

Fair opening to some court's propitious shine.

Shower

With showers of stones he drives them far away.

Shrink

What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right.

Sicken

All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.

Sickness

Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.

Side

Sets the passions on the side of truth.

All side in parties, and begin the attack.

Sightless

Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar.

Sigil

Of talismans and sigils knew the power.

Silver

And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep.

Silvery

All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

Similitude

If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine.

Simper

The conscious simper, and the jealous leer.

Simplicity

In wit a man; simplicity a child.

Sin

I grant that poetry's a crying sin.

Who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause.

Sing

O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.

Single

No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.

Singly

At omber singly to decide their doom.

Sinner

Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.

Siren

Next where the sirens dwell you plow the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please.

Skim

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Skip

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

Slaver

Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

Slender

Mighty hearts are held in slender chains.

Slide

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Slight

Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.

Smart

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Smile

She smiled to see the doughty hero slain.

'T was what I said to Craggs and Child, Who praised my modesty, and smiled.

The desert smiled, And paradise was opened in the wild.

Smite

The charms that smite the simple heart.

Smit with the love of sister arts we came.

Smooth

Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line.

Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day.

Snack

At last he whispers, “Do, and we go snacks.”

Snatch

When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

Sneer

I could be content to be a little sneared at.

Sober

See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Soft

Soft were my numbers; who could take offense?

Soften

Music can soften pain to ease.

All that cheers or softens life.

Solemnity

Great was the cause; our old solemnities From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay These grateful honors to the god of day.

Solicit

I view my crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old pleasures, and solicit new.

Solitude

In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.

Something

The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.

Sonneteer

What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me!

Sooterkin

Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.

Source

The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.

Spade

“Let spades be trumps!” she said.

Span

Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound.

Spare

I, who at some times spend, at others spare, Divided between carelessness and care.

Specify

He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and the uses of their soils are specified.

Speed

A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Spicy

Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales.

Spiky

The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore.

Spirit

A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ.

Spleen

In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.

Bodies changed to various forms by spleen.

Splenetic

You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic?

Split

Each had a gravity would make you split.

Spoil

My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes.

Spot

Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot.

Spout

From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.

Sprightly

The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green.

Spring

O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.

Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love.

Spurt

Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.

Squab

On her large squab you find her spread.

Squall

There oft are heard the notes of infant woe, -- The short, thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall.

Squeak

Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the “squeaking pigs” of Homer.

Stage

Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.

Stain

Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains.

Stake

I'll stake yon lamb, that near the fountain plays.

Stand

He stood the furious foe.

Starve

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.

State

Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again?

Who calls the council, states the certain day.

Stealth

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Stem

Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.

Step

They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.

The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.

Stone

Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie.

I have not yet forgot myself to stone.

Storied

Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, The trophied arches, storied halls, invade.

Storm

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.

Storms beat, and rolls the main; O! beat those storms, and roll the seas, in vain.

Straiten

They straiten at each end the cord.

Stratagem

Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Streamy

His nodding helm emits a streamy ray.

Strength

And praise the easy vigor of a life Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join.

Strengthen

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Strew

Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?

Strict

And rules as strict his labored work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line.

Strike

They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

String

He twangs the grieving string.

Stroke

O, lasting as those colors may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line.

Structure

There stands a structure of majestic frame.

Study

The proper study of mankind is man.

Stun

And stunned him with the music of the spheres.

Stupendous

All are but parts of one stupendous whole.

Subject

In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.

Sublime

The sun . . . Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes.

Subsist

And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all.

Subtly

In the nice bee what sense so subtly true.

Successless

Successless all her soft caresses prove.

Sue

By adverse destiny constrained to sue For counsel and redress, he sues to you.

Suffuse

When purple light shall next suffuse the skies.

Suggestion

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

Suit

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.

Sullen

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The dreaded east is all the wind that blows.

Sulphureous

Her snakes united, sulphureous waters drink.

Superlunar

The head that turns at superlunar things.

Suspense

A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain.

Suspicious

Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other.

Swain

Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel.

Swallow

Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Sweep

Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre.

Sylphid

Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear.

Sylvan

Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied.

Table

The nymph the table spread.

Take

Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.

Talk

In various talk the instructive hours they passed.

Tally

They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.

Tatter

Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair.

Tell

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

Temper

To fall with dignity, with temper rise.

Temperate

The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.

Tempt

Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire.

Test

Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

That

Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call.

With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.

This

This way and that wavering sails they bend.

Thought

Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought.

Thoughtful

War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades.

Thrid

Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.

Throw

O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.

Thunderer

That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer.

Tickle

Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Tilt

The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the urges flew.

Timeless

Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent.

Tincture

All manners take a tincture from our own.

Tingle

The pale boy senator yet tingling stands.

Tinsel

She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues.

Tint

Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass.

Titillate

The pungent grains of titillating dust.

Toll

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.

Too

An honest courtier, yet a patriot too.

Let those eyes that view The daring crime, behold the vengeance too.

Top

The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work.

Torrent

At length, Erasmus, that great injured name, . . . Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.

Touch

The god, vindictive, doomed them never more- Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore.

The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine.

Town

Stunned with his giddy larum half the town.

Trace

The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.

Trail

Long behind he trails his pompous robe.

Transient

What is loose love? A transient gust.

Translucent

Replenished from the cool, translucent springs.

Transport

With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne.

Traverse

What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought.

Tread

Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Treatment

Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

Tress

Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare.

Trick

On one nice trick depends the general fate.

Trip

I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.

Triumphant

Athena, war's triumphant maid.

Trophied

The trophied arches, storied halls, invade.

Troublesome

My mother will never be troublesome to me.

True

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.

Tufted

Tufted trees and springing corn.

Tumult

Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.

Turn

The monarch turns him to his royal guest.

His limbs how turned, how broad his shoulders spread !

Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown.

Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.

Twang

Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string.

Twilight

O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves.

Twine

Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine.

Twist

Twist it into a serpentine form.

Twitch

Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.

Tyrannic

The oppressor ruled tyrannic where he durst.

Tyrian

The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye.

Udder

Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes.

Unbalanced

Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly.

Unbending

Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Unborn

See future sons, and daughters yet unborn.

Uneasy

The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Unfaithful

My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight.

Universal

The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws.

Unlock

Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.

Unlooked

She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.

Unthinking

With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox opened, then the case.

Untie

Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink.

Unwilling

And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, “Keep your piece nine years.”

Upbear

A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.

Upon

Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer.

Uprise

Uprose the virgin with the morning light.

Urge

Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight.

Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

Use

'T is use alone that sanctifies expense.

Vain

Load some vain church with old theatric state.

Valve

Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed.

Vanity

Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead; Succeeding vanities she still regards.

Vaporish

Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd.

Variegated

Ladies like variegated tulips show.

Vary

That each from other differs, first confess; Next, that he varies from himself no less.

Vase

No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold.

Vegetate

See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again.

Venal

This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful muse.

Vent

Long 't was doubtful, both so closely pent, Which first should issue from the narrow vent.

Vernacular

Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.

Vestal

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

Vesture

There polished chests embroidered vestures graced.

Vex

White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.

Viand

Viands of various kinds allure the taste.

Victor

There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.

Viewless

Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air.

Villain

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix.

Vindicate

Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain? The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain.

Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Virago

To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries.

Virtue

Virtue only makes our bliss below.

Visionary

Or lull to rest the visionary maid.

Vital

The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part.

Void

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Volley

Rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks.

Voluntary

She fell to lust a voluntary prey.

Waft

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.

Walk

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.

Want

For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.

Warm

Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.

Waspish

Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.

Wave

The wave behind impels the wave before.

Wear

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.

Wedded

Let walth, let honor, wait the wedded dame.

Weep

We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe.

Weigh

In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs.

Well

All the world speaks well of you.

What

What time the morn mysterious visions brings.

Wheel

Then wheeling down the steep of heaven he flies.

Whisker

Hoary whiskers and a forky beard.

Whistle

The wild winds whistle, and the billows roar.

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.

White

No whiter page than Addison's remains.

Whole

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Wicked

Never, never, wicked man was wise.

Widen

Arches widen, and long aisles extend.

Wild

Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known.

Wilder

Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate.

Wind

Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn.

Wing

Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms.

With

See where on earth the flowery glories lie; With her they flourished, and with her they die.

With her they flourished, and with her they die.

Witling

A beau and witing perished in the forming.

Woe

[They] weep each other's woe.

Woeful

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be!

Wondrous

For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place.

Woodland

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again.

Wrinkle

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.

Wrong

Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss.

Yield

Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields?

Yoke

A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke.

Zany

Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.