The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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... Goddess , what offended Power Enflamed their rage , in that ill - omen'd hour ; anger fatal , hapless Phœbus himself ... Goddess , sing , That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ...
... Goddess , what offended Power Enflamed their rage , in that ill - omen'd hour ; anger fatal , hapless Phœbus himself ... Goddess , sing , That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ...
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... Goddesses ! immortal nine ! Since Earth's wide regions , Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide ... Goddess with her breath the flame supplies , Bright as the star whose fires in Autumn rise ; Her breath divine thick ...
... Goddesses ! immortal nine ! Since Earth's wide regions , Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide ... Goddess with her breath the flame supplies , Bright as the star whose fires in Autumn rise ; Her breath divine thick ...
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... goddess , and our grief no more ! LYCIDAS . How all things listen , while thy muse complains ! Such silence waits on Philomela's strains , In some still evening , when the whispering breeze Pants on the leaves , and dies upon the trees ...
... goddess , and our grief no more ! LYCIDAS . How all things listen , while thy muse complains ! Such silence waits on Philomela's strains , In some still evening , when the whispering breeze Pants on the leaves , and dies upon the trees ...
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... goddess , and as chaste a queen ; Whose care , like hers , protects the sylvan reign , The earth's fair light , and empress of the main . Here , too , ' tis sung , of old , Diana stray'd , And Cynthus ' top forsook for Windsor shade ...
... goddess , and as chaste a queen ; Whose care , like hers , protects the sylvan reign , The earth's fair light , and empress of the main . Here , too , ' tis sung , of old , Diana stray'd , And Cynthus ' top forsook for Windsor shade ...
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... goddess ! could compel enough to laugh not only at their sex's little unguard- A well - bred lord to assault a gentle belle ? ed follies , but at their own . But as it was commu - O say what stranger cause , yet unexplored , nicated ...
... goddess ! could compel enough to laugh not only at their sex's little unguard- A well - bred lord to assault a gentle belle ? ed follies , but at their own . But as it was commu - O say what stranger cause , yet unexplored , nicated ...
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