The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 2. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... Gods contend in charms with thee , The Muses teach me all their fofteft lays , And the wide world refounds with Sappho's praise . Tho ' great Alcæus more fublimely fings , And strikes with bolder rage the founding ftrings , No less ...
... Gods contend in charms with thee , The Muses teach me all their fofteft lays , And the wide world refounds with Sappho's praise . Tho ' great Alcæus more fublimely fings , And strikes with bolder rage the founding ftrings , No less ...
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... Gods , a Lesbian dame ? But ah beware , Sicilian nymphs ! nor boast That wand'ring heart which I fo lately loft ; Nor be with all those tempting words abus'd , Those tempting words were all to Sappho us'd . And you that rule Sicilia's ...
... Gods , a Lesbian dame ? But ah beware , Sicilian nymphs ! nor boast That wand'ring heart which I fo lately loft ; Nor be with all those tempting words abus'd , Those tempting words were all to Sappho us'd . And you that rule Sicilia's ...
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... God that ever waits on thee , When first I heard ( from whom I hardly knew ) That you were fled , and all my joys with you , Like fome fad ftatue , fpeechlefs , pale I ftood , 125 Grief chill'd my breast , and stopp'd my freezing blood ...
... God that ever waits on thee , When first I heard ( from whom I hardly knew ) That you were fled , and all my joys with you , Like fome fad ftatue , fpeechlefs , pale I ftood , 125 Grief chill'd my breast , and stopp'd my freezing blood ...
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... God agree . " But why , alas , relentless youth , ah why To distant seas must tender Sappho fly ? Thy charms than those may far more pow'rful be , And Phoebus ' felf is lefs a God to me . Ah ! can't thou doom me to the rocks and fea , O ...
... God agree . " But why , alas , relentless youth , ah why To distant seas must tender Sappho fly ? Thy charms than those may far more pow'rful be , And Phoebus ' felf is lefs a God to me . Ah ! can't thou doom me to the rocks and fea , O ...
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... Gods ! can no pray'rs , no fighs , no numbers move One favage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my pray'rs , my fighs , my numbers bear , The flying winds have loft them all in air ! 245 Oh when , alas ! fhall more aufpicious ...
... Gods ! can no pray'rs , no fighs , no numbers move One favage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my pray'rs , my fighs , my numbers bear , The flying winds have loft them all in air ! 245 Oh when , alas ! fhall more aufpicious ...
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