The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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... glory to be great no more , And , carrying with you all the world can boast , To all the world illustriously are lost ; O let my muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades you tune the lyre . So when the nightingale to ...
... glory to be great no more , And , carrying with you all the world can boast , To all the world illustriously are lost ; O let my muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades you tune the lyre . So when the nightingale to ...
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... glory , mounts the sky , While silent birds forget their tuneful lays , O sing of Daphne's fate , and Daphne's praise ! THYRSIS . Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost : Here ...
... glory , mounts the sky , While silent birds forget their tuneful lays , O sing of Daphne's fate , and Daphne's praise ! THYRSIS . Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost : Here ...
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... glory now no more ! | Delight no more - O Thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times , the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive , a Virgin bear a Son . From Jesse's ' root behold a branch ...
... glory now no more ! | Delight no more - O Thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times , the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive , a Virgin bear a Son . From Jesse's ' root behold a branch ...
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... glory , one unclouded blaze , O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd , and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste , the skies in smoke decay , 105 60 Rocks fall to dust , and mountains melt away ; 65 But ...
... glory , one unclouded blaze , O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd , and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste , the skies in smoke decay , 105 60 Rocks fall to dust , and mountains melt away ; 65 But ...
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... glory to the stars shall raise ; Though Tiber's streams immortal Rome behold , Though foaming Hermus swells with tides of gold , From heaven itself though sevenfold Nilus flows , And harvests on a hundred realms bestows ; These now no ...
... glory to the stars shall raise ; Though Tiber's streams immortal Rome behold , Though foaming Hermus swells with tides of gold , From heaven itself though sevenfold Nilus flows , And harvests on a hundred realms bestows ; These now no ...
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