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 53
... soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , The muse shall sing , and what she sings shall last . ) Scarce could the goddess from her nymph be known , But by the crescent , and the golden zone . She scorn'd the ...
... soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , The muse shall sing , and what she sings shall last . ) Scarce could the goddess from her nymph be known , But by the crescent , and the golden zone . She scorn'd the ...
Page 57
... soul while memory prevails , true genius , ver . 9 to 18. That most men are born The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft. Chorus . Hence , guilty joys , distates , surmises ...
... soul while memory prevails , true genius , ver . 9 to 18. That most men are born The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft. Chorus . Hence , guilty joys , distates , surmises ...
Page 70
... soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire ? Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows , And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows . Most ...
... soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire ? Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows , And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows . Most ...
Page 71
... soul , they sin ; Still hoarding up , most scandalously nice , Amidst their virtues a reserve of vice . The godly dame , who fleshly failings damns , Scolds with her maid , or with her chaplain crams : Would you enjoy soft nights and ...
... soul , they sin ; Still hoarding up , most scandalously nice , Amidst their virtues a reserve of vice . The godly dame , who fleshly failings damns , Scolds with her maid , or with her chaplain crams : Would you enjoy soft nights and ...
Page 73
... soul , and vigour to my song : Absent from thee , the poet's flame expires ; But ah ! how fiercely burn the lover's fires ! Gods ! can no prayers , no sighs , no numbers move One savage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my ...
... soul , and vigour to my song : Absent from thee , the poet's flame expires ; But ah ! how fiercely burn the lover's fires ! Gods ! can no prayers , no sighs , no numbers move One savage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my ...
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