The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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... slain ; fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely The encouragement given to this translation , I though report seems to have overrated it , was such as the world has not often seen . The subscribers were five hundred and seventy ...
... slain ; fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely The encouragement given to this translation , I though report seems to have overrated it , was such as the world has not often seen . The subscribers were five hundred and seventy ...
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... slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Wind the shrill horn , or spread the waving net . When milder autumn summer's heat succeeds , And in the new - shorn field the partridge feeds ; Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds ...
... slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Wind the shrill horn , or spread the waving net . When milder autumn summer's heat succeeds , And in the new - shorn field the partridge feeds ; Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds ...
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... slain , But , at her smile , the beau revived again . Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air , Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair ; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side ; At length the wits mount up , the hairs ...
... slain , But , at her smile , the beau revived again . Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air , Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair ; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side ; At length the wits mount up , the hairs ...
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... slain , And some have hammer'd nails into their brain , And some have drench'd them with a deadly potion ; All this he read , and read with great devotion . Long time I heard , and swell'd , and blush'd , and frown'd : But when no end ...
... slain , And some have hammer'd nails into their brain , And some have drench'd them with a deadly potion ; All this he read , and read with great devotion . Long time I heard , and swell'd , and blush'd , and frown'd : But when no end ...
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... slain on every side , Hippomedon repell'd the hostile tide ? Or how the youth , with every grace adorn'd , Untimely fell , to be for ever mourn'd ? Then to fierce Capaneus thy verse extend , And sing with horror his prodigious end . The ...
... slain on every side , Hippomedon repell'd the hostile tide ? Or how the youth , with every grace adorn'd , Untimely fell , to be for ever mourn'd ? Then to fierce Capaneus thy verse extend , And sing with horror his prodigious end . The ...
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