The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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Page x
... dead the Phrygian plain , Heroes And peopled the dark hell with heroes slain ; fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely for which subscriptions were given , were six hun- Whose limbs , unburied on the naked shore , dred and fifty ...
... dead the Phrygian plain , Heroes And peopled the dark hell with heroes slain ; fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely for which subscriptions were given , were six hun- Whose limbs , unburied on the naked shore , dred and fifty ...
Page xxix
... dead ; he read his compositions to his friends , that he ever lost his belief of Revelation . The and was never content with mediocrity , when ex positions which he transmitted from Bolingbroke cellence could be attained . He considered ...
... dead ; he read his compositions to his friends , that he ever lost his belief of Revelation . The and was never content with mediocrity , when ex positions which he transmitted from Bolingbroke cellence could be attained . He considered ...
Page xxxviii
... dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the lot of man , or incline us much to wonder that he should die . What is meant by " judge of nature , " is not easy to say . Nature is not the ob- ject of human judgment ; for it is ...
... dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the lot of man , or incline us much to wonder that he should die . What is meant by " judge of nature , " is not easy to say . Nature is not the ob- ject of human judgment ; for it is ...
Page xli
... dead . At the third couplet I should wish the epitaph to close , but that I should be unwilling to lose the two next lines , which yet are dearly bought if they cannot be retained without the four that fol- low them a child , make a ...
... dead . At the third couplet I should wish the epitaph to close , but that I should be unwilling to lose the two next lines , which yet are dearly bought if they cannot be retained without the four that fol- low them a child , make a ...
Page 44
... dead and living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be informed of my errors , both by my friends and enemies : but the true reason these pieces I believe if any one , early in his life , should con- template the dangerous fate of ...
... dead and living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be informed of my errors , both by my friends and enemies : but the true reason these pieces I believe if any one , early in his life , should con- template the dangerous fate of ...
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