The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... Can see each Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You visit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright Affemblage treasur'd there ; 20 You trace the Chain that links his deep design , A 3.
... Can see each Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You visit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright Affemblage treasur'd there ; 20 You trace the Chain that links his deep design , A 3.
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... taste superior scorn'd the venal tribe , Whom fear can sway , or guilty greatness bribe ; At Fancy's call who rear the wanton fail , Sport with the stream , and trifle in the gale : 480 Sublimer views thy daring Spirit bound ; Thy ...
... taste superior scorn'd the venal tribe , Whom fear can sway , or guilty greatness bribe ; At Fancy's call who rear the wanton fail , Sport with the stream , and trifle in the gale : 480 Sublimer views thy daring Spirit bound ; Thy ...
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... taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : 90 Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of Self - love the Paffions we may call : ' Tis real good , or feeming , moves them all ...
... taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : 90 Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of Self - love the Paffions we may call : ' Tis real good , or feeming , moves them all ...
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... taste them , as they worse obtain . COMMENTARY . peace , and competence ; but that these are to be gain'd only by VIRTUE , namely , by temperance , innocence , and in- dustry . VER . 83. The good or bad , & c . ] Hitherto the Poet hath ...
... taste them , as they worse obtain . COMMENTARY . peace , and competence ; but that these are to be gain'd only by VIRTUE , namely , by temperance , innocence , and in- dustry . VER . 83. The good or bad , & c . ] Hitherto the Poet hath ...
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Alexander Pope. The only point where human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives ; The joy unequal'd , if its end it gain ...
Alexander Pope. The only point where human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives ; The joy unequal'd , if its end it gain ...
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