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, 3. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... King - of Spades ! Let SATIRE here in milder vigour fhine , And gayly graceful sport along the line ; Bid courtly Fashion quit her thin pretence , And smile each Affectation into fenfe . 290 Not fo when Virtue by her Guards betray'd ...
... King - of Spades ! Let SATIRE here in milder vigour fhine , And gayly graceful sport along the line ; Bid courtly Fashion quit her thin pretence , And smile each Affectation into fenfe . 290 Not fo when Virtue by her Guards betray'd ...
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... Kings . Let us ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; AWild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; Or ...
... Kings . Let us ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; AWild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; Or ...
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... kings , and the generations of men ; and the position of the co- lures of the equinoxes and folftices at the time of the Argonau- tic expedition . VER . 29 , 30. Go , teach Eternal Wisdom , & c . ] These two lines are a conclufion from ...
... kings , and the generations of men ; and the position of the co- lures of the equinoxes and folftices at the time of the Argonau- tic expedition . VER . 29 , 30. Go , teach Eternal Wisdom , & c . ] These two lines are a conclufion from ...
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... kings prefumption , and to crowds belief : That , Virtue's ends from vanity can raise , Which feeks no int'reft , no reward but praise ; And build on wants , and on defects of mind , The joy , the peace , the glory of Mankind . Heav'n ...
... kings prefumption , and to crowds belief : That , Virtue's ends from vanity can raise , Which feeks no int'reft , no reward but praise ; And build on wants , and on defects of mind , The joy , the peace , the glory of Mankind . Heav'n ...
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... king ; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely bleft , the poet in his Muse . COMMENTARY . 270 life ; he comes , in the laft place ( from 260 to the end ) to fhew their use to the Individual , even in their illufions ; the ...
... king ; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely bleft , the poet in his Muse . COMMENTARY . 270 life ; he comes , in the laft place ( from 260 to the end ) to fhew their use to the Individual , even in their illufions ; the ...
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