The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... blest , And breath'd her airs divine into his breaft : Fancy and Sense to form his line conspire , And faultless Judgment guides the purest Fire . But fee , at length , the British Genius smile , And show'r her bounties o'er her favour ...
... blest , And breath'd her airs divine into his breaft : Fancy and Sense to form his line conspire , And faultless Judgment guides the purest Fire . But fee , at length , the British Genius smile , And show'r her bounties o'er her favour ...
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... blest to day is as completely fo , 75 As who began a thousand years ago . III . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ...
... blest to day is as completely fo , 75 As who began a thousand years ago . III . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ...
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... blest abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Afpiring to be Angels , Men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws OF ORDER , fins against th ' Eternal Cause . COMMENTARY . 125 ...
... blest abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Afpiring to be Angels , Men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws OF ORDER , fins against th ' Eternal Cause . COMMENTARY . 125 ...
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... blest as we can bear ; for that NATURE is neither a Stratonic chain of blind Causes and Effects , ( All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ) nor yet the fortuitous result of Epicurean Atoms , ( All Chance , Direction , which thou canst ...
... blest as we can bear ; for that NATURE is neither a Stratonic chain of blind Causes and Effects , ( All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ) nor yet the fortuitous result of Epicurean Atoms , ( All Chance , Direction , which thou canst ...
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... blest beam turns vinegar more fow'r . We , wretched fubjects tho ' to lawful fway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey : NOTES . 145 150 VER . 147. Reason itself , & c . ] The Poet , in some other of his epistles , gives ...
... blest beam turns vinegar more fow'r . We , wretched fubjects tho ' to lawful fway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey : NOTES . 145 150 VER . 147. Reason itself , & c . ] The Poet , in some other of his epistles , gives ...
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