The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideJames Nichol, 1856 - 326 pages |
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... mankind , those of ordinary or indifferent capacities ; and these ( to a man ) will hate , or suspect him : a hundred honest gentlemen will dread him as a wit , and a hundred innocent women as a satirist . In a word , whatever be his ...
... mankind , those of ordinary or indifferent capacities ; and these ( to a man ) will hate , or suspect him : a hundred honest gentlemen will dread him as a wit , and a hundred innocent women as a satirist . In a word , whatever be his ...
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... mankind , the most ancient sort of poetry was probably pastoral . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient shepherds admitting and inviting some diversion , none was so proper to that solitary and seden- tary life as ...
... mankind , the most ancient sort of poetry was probably pastoral . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient shepherds admitting and inviting some diversion , none was so proper to that solitary and seden- tary life as ...
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... mankind , and all the world - but Love ! I know thee , Love ! on foreign mountains bred , Wolves gave thee suck , and savage tigers fed . Thou wert from Etna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ...
... mankind , and all the world - but Love ! I know thee , Love ! on foreign mountains bred , Wolves gave thee suck , and savage tigers fed . Thou wert from Etna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ...
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... mankind his guardian care engage , The promised Father of the future age . No more shall nation against nation rise , Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er , The brazen trumpets ...
... mankind his guardian care engage , The promised Father of the future age . No more shall nation against nation rise , Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er , The brazen trumpets ...
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... mankind . Zoilus , had these been known , without a name Had died , and Perault ne'er been damn'd to fame ; The sense of sound antiquity had reign'd , C VER . 130 , 131 : - When first young Maro sung of kings and wars , Ere warning ...
... mankind . Zoilus , had these been known , without a name Had died , and Perault ne'er been damn'd to fame ; The sense of sound antiquity had reign'd , C VER . 130 , 131 : - When first young Maro sung of kings and wars , Ere warning ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient Bavius beauty bless'd blest bliss breast breath bright charms court cried critics crown'd Curll Cynthus divine Dunciad e'er earth ease Eclogues Elkanah Settle envy EPISTLE eternal eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flowers fools genius glory Gnome grace groves happy head heart Heaven honour Horace Iliad kings knave laws learn'd live Lord Lord Bolingbroke mankind mind mortal Muse Muse's Nature Nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral peace plain pleased poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride proud rage reason rhyme rise sacred Sappho satire sense shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul spleen Sylphs taught tears Thalestris thee Theocritus things thou thought trembling truth Twas Umbriel VARIATIONS verse virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY whate'er Whig wings write youth