“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 1. köideFredrick Nicolai, 1762 |
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Page xviii
... thee from the bleak Atlantic shore . To our dark world thy fhining page is shown , And Windfor's gay retreat becomes our own . The Eaftern pomp had juft bespoke our care , And India pour'd her gaudy treasures here : A various fpoil ...
... thee from the bleak Atlantic shore . To our dark world thy fhining page is shown , And Windfor's gay retreat becomes our own . The Eaftern pomp had juft bespoke our care , And India pour'd her gaudy treasures here : A various fpoil ...
Page xxi
... thee , fhall please ev'n Britons more Than all their fhouts for Victory before . Oh ! could Britannia imitate thy ftream , 96 100 The World fhould tremble at her awful name : From various fprings divided waters glide , In diff'rent ...
... thee , fhall please ev'n Britons more Than all their fhouts for Victory before . Oh ! could Britannia imitate thy ftream , 96 100 The World fhould tremble at her awful name : From various fprings divided waters glide , In diff'rent ...
Page xxii
... thee to hear ? Reply'd the God ; " Your loftieft notes employ , " To fing young Peleus , and the fall of Troy . " The wond'rous fong with rapture they rehearse ; Then afk who wrought that miracle of verfe ? He anfwer'd with a frown ...
... thee to hear ? Reply'd the God ; " Your loftieft notes employ , " To fing young Peleus , and the fall of Troy . " The wond'rous fong with rapture they rehearse ; Then afk who wrought that miracle of verfe ? He anfwer'd with a frown ...
Page xxiii
... thee . Horace himfelf would own thou doft excell In candid arts to play the Critic well , Ovid himself might wish to fing the Daine Whom Windsor Foreft fees a gliding stream : On filver feet , with annual Ofier crown'd , She runs for ...
... thee . Horace himfelf would own thou doft excell In candid arts to play the Critic well , Ovid himself might wish to fing the Daine Whom Windsor Foreft fees a gliding stream : On filver feet , with annual Ofier crown'd , She runs for ...
Page xxiv
... thee near him might be fond to chufe . How might he tune th ' alternate reed with thee , Perhaps a Strephon thou , a Daphnis he ; While fome old Damon , o'er the vulgar wife , Thinks he deferves , and thou deferv't the Prize ? Rapt with ...
... thee near him might be fond to chufe . How might he tune th ' alternate reed with thee , Perhaps a Strephon thou , a Daphnis he ; While fome old Damon , o'er the vulgar wife , Thinks he deferves , and thou deferv't the Prize ? Rapt with ...
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