The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe , his living thus in a courfe of flat- tery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : If he has , he will confequently have fo much diffidence , as not to reap any great fatis- faction ...
... Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe , his living thus in a courfe of flat- tery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : If he has , he will confequently have fo much diffidence , as not to reap any great fatis- faction ...
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... beauty in itself , and that it be different in every Eclogue . Befides , in each of them a defign'd fcene or profpect is to be prefented to our view , which fhould likewife have its variety . This variety is obtain'd in a great degree ...
... beauty in itself , and that it be different in every Eclogue . Befides , in each of them a defign'd fcene or profpect is to be prefented to our view , which fhould likewife have its variety . This variety is obtain'd in a great degree ...
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... beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus ; it was used in part of Greece , and : frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest perfons : whereas the old English and country phrases of Spenfer were either entirely obfolete , or ...
... beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus ; it was used in part of Greece , and : frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest perfons : whereas the old English and country phrases of Spenfer were either entirely obfolete , or ...
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... , that this fort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural ease of thought and fmoothnefs of verse ; whereas that of most other kinds confifts in the Strength and Let vernal airs thro ' trembling ofiers play , And SPRING. ...
... , that this fort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural ease of thought and fmoothnefs of verse ; whereas that of most other kinds confifts in the Strength and Let vernal airs thro ' trembling ofiers play , And SPRING. ...
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... beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost . Here fhall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain ; That call'd the lift'ning Dryads to the plain ? Thames heard the numbers as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong . LYCIDAS ...
... beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost . Here fhall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain ; That call'd the lift'ning Dryads to the plain ? Thames heard the numbers as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong . LYCIDAS ...
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