The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... POET's name : Beholds , where WIDCOMBE's happy hills afcend , Each orphan'd Art and Virtue find a friend : TO HAGLEY's honour'd Shade directs her view ; And culls each flow'r , to form a Wreath for You . 330 But tread with cautious step ...
... POET's name : Beholds , where WIDCOMBE's happy hills afcend , Each orphan'd Art and Virtue find a friend : TO HAGLEY's honour'd Shade directs her view ; And culls each flow'r , to form a Wreath for You . 330 But tread with cautious step ...
Page xxv
... Poet's pow'r in one : Each Roman's force adorns his various page , Gay fmiles , corrected ftrength , and manly rage , Defpairing Guilt and Dulnefs loath the fight , 455 As Spectres vanifh at approaching light : In this clear Mirror with ...
... Poet's pow'r in one : Each Roman's force adorns his various page , Gay fmiles , corrected ftrength , and manly rage , Defpairing Guilt and Dulnefs loath the fight , 455 As Spectres vanifh at approaching light : In this clear Mirror with ...
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... Poet's modeft and fober Introduction ; in which he truly observes , that no wisdom lefs than omniscient " Can tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . Yet , though we be unable to discover the particular reasons for this mode of our ...
... Poet's modeft and fober Introduction ; in which he truly observes , that no wisdom lefs than omniscient " Can tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . Yet , though we be unable to discover the particular reasons for this mode of our ...
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... Poet , as we faid , having bid Man comfort himself with expectation of future happinefs , having fhewn him that ... poet's purpose to teach , that the prefent life is only a state of probation for another , more fuitable to the ...
... Poet , as we faid , having bid Man comfort himself with expectation of future happinefs , having fhewn him that ... poet's purpose to teach , that the prefent life is only a state of probation for another , more fuitable to the ...
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... Poet's doctrine of a future State , will furnish us with an inftance of his fteering ( as he well expreffes it in ... Poet leaves to Any that will take them up ; but agrees however so far with the first , that Vir- " tue would be ...
... Poet's doctrine of a future State , will furnish us with an inftance of his fteering ( as he well expreffes it in ... Poet leaves to Any that will take them up ; but agrees however so far with the first , that Vir- " tue would be ...
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