The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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... fame , Or urged by wrongs , to Troy's destruction came ! To count them all , demands a thousand tongues , A throat of brass and adamantine lungs . Now , Virgin Goddesses , immortal Nine ! That round Olympus ' heavenly summit shine , Who ...
... fame , Or urged by wrongs , to Troy's destruction came ! To count them all , demands a thousand tongues , A throat of brass and adamantine lungs . Now , Virgin Goddesses , immortal Nine ! That round Olympus ' heavenly summit shine , Who ...
Page xviii
... fame , were by him printed and Oxford's , and that the copy thence stolen was sen sold . This volume containing some Letters from to the press . The story was doubtless received noblemen , Pope incited a prosecution against him with ...
... fame , were by him printed and Oxford's , and that the copy thence stolen was sen sold . This volume containing some Letters from to the press . The story was doubtless received noblemen , Pope incited a prosecution against him with ...
Page xxviii
... fame , when he speaks of riches kind sometimes with gay indifference , as on emmets and poverty , of success and disappointment , with of a hillock , below his serious attention ; and some- negligent indifference , he certainly does not ...
... fame , when he speaks of riches kind sometimes with gay indifference , as on emmets and poverty , of success and disappointment , with of a hillock , below his serious attention ; and some- negligent indifference , he certainly does not ...
Page 43
... fame or pleasure aseach affords the other . talents as they have are so far discredited as to be of Every one acknowledges it would be a wild notion but small service to them . For ( what is the hardest to expect perfection in any work ...
... fame or pleasure aseach affords the other . talents as they have are so far discredited as to be of Every one acknowledges it would be a wild notion but small service to them . For ( what is the hardest to expect perfection in any work ...
Page 61
... fame ( our second life ) is lost , And bare threescore is all e'en that can boast ; Our sons their fathers ' failing language see , And such as Chaucer is , shall Dryden be . So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of ...
... fame ( our second life ) is lost , And bare threescore is all e'en that can boast ; Our sons their fathers ' failing language see , And such as Chaucer is , shall Dryden be . So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of ...
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