The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... fate in Poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a Genius to Poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of felf - amufement ...
... fate in Poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a Genius to Poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of felf - amufement ...
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... fate of authors , he would scarce be of their number on any confideration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and the present spirit of the learned world is fuch , that to attempt to ferve it ( any way ) one must have the ...
... fate of authors , he would scarce be of their number on any confideration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and the present spirit of the learned world is fuch , that to attempt to ferve it ( any way ) one must have the ...
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... fate , Which wou'd , if Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So Larks , which firft from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and ...
... fate , Which wou'd , if Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So Larks , which firft from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and ...
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... Fate : Not that Barbarian hands her Fafces broke , And bow'd her haughty neck beneath their yoke ; Nor that her palaces to earth are thrown , Her cities defart , and her fields unfown ; But that her ancient Spirit is decay'd , 15 20 30 ...
... Fate : Not that Barbarian hands her Fafces broke , And bow'd her haughty neck beneath their yoke ; Nor that her palaces to earth are thrown , Her cities defart , and her fields unfown ; But that her ancient Spirit is decay'd , 15 20 30 ...
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... Love bad taught to fing , Bewail'd his fate befide a filver fpring ; Where gentle Thames his winding waters leads , Thro ' verdant forefts , and thro ' flow'ry meads . There There while he mourn'd , the ftreams forgot to flow SUMMER. ...
... Love bad taught to fing , Bewail'd his fate befide a filver fpring ; Where gentle Thames his winding waters leads , Thro ' verdant forefts , and thro ' flow'ry meads . There There while he mourn'd , the ftreams forgot to flow SUMMER. ...
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