The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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Page 48
... BENEATH the shade a spreading beech displays , Hylas and Egon sang their rural lays : This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love ; And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succours bring ...
... BENEATH the shade a spreading beech displays , Hylas and Egon sang their rural lays : This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love ; And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succours bring ...
Page 53
... beneath the quivering shade , Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead , The patient fisher takes his silent stand , Intent , his angle trembling in his hand ; With looks unmoved , he hopes the scaly breed , And eyes the dancing ...
... beneath the quivering shade , Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead , The patient fisher takes his silent stand , Intent , his angle trembling in his hand ; With looks unmoved , he hopes the scaly breed , And eyes the dancing ...
Page 59
... and where they most abound , Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found . 310 False eloquence , like the prismatic glass , Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey , All ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 59.
... and where they most abound , Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found . 310 False eloquence , like the prismatic glass , Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey , All ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 59.
Page 65
... beneath . Some to the sun their insect wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
... beneath . Some to the sun their insect wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
Page 73
... beneath my body blow , And softly lay me on the waves below ! And thou , kind Love , my sinking limbs sustain , Spread thy soft wings , and waft me o'er the main , Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane ! On Phœbus ' shrine ...
... beneath my body blow , And softly lay me on the waves below ! And thou , kind Love , my sinking limbs sustain , Spread thy soft wings , and waft me o'er the main , Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane ! On Phœbus ' shrine ...
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