The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, 3. köideC. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... Lost . Ver . 8. Live in description , ] Evidently suggested by Waller : " Of the first Paradise there's nothing found , Yet the description lasts ; who knows the fate Of lives that shall this Paradise relate ? Instead of rivers rolling ...
... Lost . Ver . 8. Live in description , ] Evidently suggested by Waller : " Of the first Paradise there's nothing found , Yet the description lasts ; who knows the fate Of lives that shall this Paradise relate ? Instead of rivers rolling ...
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... lost . See the bold youth strain up the threat'ning steep , Rush through the thickets , down the valleys sweep , Hang o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed . Let old Arcadia boast ...
... lost . See the bold youth strain up the threat'ning steep , Rush through the thickets , down the valleys sweep , Hang o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed . Let old Arcadia boast ...
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... lost the beauty and the propriety of the original . Homer says , the arrows sounded in the quiver because the step of the God was hasty and irregular , as of an angry person . Irati describitur incessus , paulo utique inæquabilior . Ver ...
... lost the beauty and the propriety of the original . Homer says , the arrows sounded in the quiver because the step of the God was hasty and irregular , as of an angry person . Irati describitur incessus , paulo utique inæquabilior . Ver ...
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... lost ! what tears the river shed , When the sad pomp along his banks was led ? His drooping swans on ev'ry note expire , And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre . NOTES . 275 Ver . 271. majestic Denham ] Pope , by the expression of ...
... lost ! what tears the river shed , When the sad pomp along his banks was led ? His drooping swans on ev'ry note expire , And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre . NOTES . 275 Ver . 271. majestic Denham ] Pope , by the expression of ...
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... lost . See the bold youth strain up the threat'ning steep , Rush through the thickets , down the valleys sweep , Hang o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed . Let old Arcadia boast ...
... lost . See the bold youth strain up the threat'ning steep , Rush through the thickets , down the valleys sweep , Hang o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed . Let old Arcadia boast ...
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