The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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... grace his hands ; By these he begs , and , lowly bending down Extends the sceptre and the laurel crown . For Chryses sought by presents to regain costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the Victor's chain : Suppliant the ...
... grace his hands ; By these he begs , and , lowly bending down Extends the sceptre and the laurel crown . For Chryses sought by presents to regain costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the Victor's chain : Suppliant the ...
Page xxxv
... grace . Dulness or deformity are not culpable in he meets it in its new array , no longer knows the themselves , but may be very justly reproached talk of his mother and his nurse . When these when they pretend to the honour of wit or ...
... grace . Dulness or deformity are not culpable in he meets it in its new array , no longer knows the themselves , but may be very justly reproached talk of his mother and his nurse . When these when they pretend to the honour of wit or ...
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... grace of courts , the Muse's pride , Patron of arts , and judge of nature , died . The scourge of pride , though sanctified or great , Of fops in learning , and of knaves in state ; Yet soft in nature , though severe his lay , His anger ...
... grace of courts , the Muse's pride , Patron of arts , and judge of nature , died . The scourge of pride , though sanctified or great , Of fops in learning , and of knaves in state ; Yet soft in nature , though severe his lay , His anger ...
Page 47
... grace excel , Blest nymphs , whose swains those graces sing so well Now rise and haste to yonder woodbine bowers , A soft retreat from sudden vernal showers : The turf with rural dainties shall be crown'd , While opening blooms diffuse ...
... grace excel , Blest nymphs , whose swains those graces sing so well Now rise and haste to yonder woodbine bowers , A soft retreat from sudden vernal showers : The turf with rural dainties shall be crown'd , While opening blooms diffuse ...
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... grace beyond the reach of art , Which , without passing through the judgment , gains 90 The heart , and all its ends at once attains . 150 160 In prospects thus , some objects please our eyes , Which out of nature's common order rise ...
... grace beyond the reach of art , Which , without passing through the judgment , gains 90 The heart , and all its ends at once attains . 150 160 In prospects thus , some objects please our eyes , Which out of nature's common order rise ...
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