The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 2. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... FAME JANUARY and MAY , from Chaucer The WIFE of BATH , from Chaucer The First Book of STATIUS'S THEBAIS Page The FABLE of DRYOPE , from Ovid's Meta- morphofes 29 51 87 125 149 227 VERTUMNUS and POMONA , from Ovid's Me- tamorphofes ...
... FAME JANUARY and MAY , from Chaucer The WIFE of BATH , from Chaucer The First Book of STATIUS'S THEBAIS Page The FABLE of DRYOPE , from Ovid's Meta- morphofes 29 51 87 125 149 227 VERTUMNUS and POMONA , from Ovid's Me- tamorphofes ...
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... fame , 75 Ignobly burn'd in a destructive flame : 80 An infant daughter late my griefs increas'd , And all a mother's cares diftract my breaft . Alas , what more could fate itself impose , But thee , the laft and greatest of my woes ...
... fame , 75 Ignobly burn'd in a destructive flame : 80 An infant daughter late my griefs increas'd , And all a mother's cares diftract my breaft . Alas , what more could fate itself impose , But thee , the laft and greatest of my woes ...
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... Fame . 40 Yet write , oh write me all , that I may join Griefs to thy griefs , and echo fighs to thine . Nor foes nor fortune take this pow'r away ; And is my Abelard less kind than they ? Tears still are mine , and those I need not ...
... Fame . 40 Yet write , oh write me all , that I may join Griefs to thy griefs , and echo fighs to thine . Nor foes nor fortune take this pow'r away ; And is my Abelard less kind than they ? Tears still are mine , and those I need not ...
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... fame ; Before true paffion all thofe views remove ; Fame , wealth , and honour ! what are you to Love ? NOTES . VER . 66. And truths divine , etc. ] He was her Preceptor in Philofophy and Divinity . VER . 75 . IMITATIONS . Love will not ...
... fame ; Before true paffion all thofe views remove ; Fame , wealth , and honour ! what are you to Love ? NOTES . VER . 66. And truths divine , etc. ] He was her Preceptor in Philofophy and Divinity . VER . 75 . IMITATIONS . Love will not ...
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... fame fad prospect find , And wake to all the griefs I left behind . For thee the fates , feverely kind , ordain A cool fufpenfe from pleasure and from pain ; 250 Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repofe ; No pulse that riots , and no ...
... fame fad prospect find , And wake to all the griefs I left behind . For thee the fates , feverely kind , ordain A cool fufpenfe from pleasure and from pain ; 250 Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repofe ; No pulse that riots , and no ...
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Page 31 - Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine. Nor foes nor fortune take this pow'r away; And is my Abelard less kind than they?
Page 41 - Ah come not, write not, think not once of me, Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign, Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine.
Page 33 - Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part, And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. This sure is bliss (if bliss on earth there be) And once the lot of Abelard and me.
Page 44 - If ever chance two wand'ring lovers brings To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs, O'er the pale marble shall they join their heads, And...
Page 34 - Still on that breast enamour'd let me lie, Still drink delicious poison from thy eye, Pant on thy lip, and to thy heart be press'd; Give all thou canst — and let me dream the rest.
Page 29 - IN these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heavenly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns, What means this tumult in a vestal's veins ? Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat ? Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat ? Yet, yet I love ! — From Abelard it came, And Eloisa yet must kiss the name.
Page 36 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 43 - Cross before my lifted eye, Teach me at once, and learn of me to die. Ah then, thy once-lov'd Eloi'sa see ! It will be then no crime to gaze on me.
Page 65 - The figur'd games of Greece the column grace, Neptune and Jove survey the rapid race. The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run ; The fiery steeds seem starting from the stone ; The champions in distorted postures threat ; And all appear'd irregularly great. Here happy Horace tun'd th...
Page 32 - Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?