The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... last to make it less . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , Itself a fubject for fatyric rhime ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with fo much Art ...
... last to make it less . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , Itself a fubject for fatyric rhime ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with fo much Art ...
Page xx
... last the skies . 45 50 W. WYCHERLEY . TO Mr. POPE , on his Windfor - Foreft . HA AIL , facred Bard ! a Mufe unknown before Salutes thee from the bleak Atlantic fhore . To our dark world thy fhining page is shown , And Windfor's gay ...
... last the skies . 45 50 W. WYCHERLEY . TO Mr. POPE , on his Windfor - Foreft . HA AIL , facred Bard ! a Mufe unknown before Salutes thee from the bleak Atlantic fhore . To our dark world thy fhining page is shown , And Windfor's gay ...
Page xxix
... expanded sky Blaze in one flame , fhalt thou and Homer die : Then fink together , in the world's last fires , What heav'n created , and what heav'n inspires . in 5 10 If If aught on earth , when once this breath is ( xxix )
... expanded sky Blaze in one flame , fhalt thou and Homer die : Then fink together , in the world's last fires , What heav'n created , and what heav'n inspires . in 5 10 If If aught on earth , when once this breath is ( xxix )
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... last delightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this confideration along with us , that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age . So that we are not to describe our fhepherds as fhepherds at this day ...
... last delightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this confideration along with us , that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age . So that we are not to describe our fhepherds as fhepherds at this day ...
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... last of his language . Among the moderns , their fuccefs has been greatest who have most endeavour'd to make these ancients their pattern . The most confiderable Genius appears in the famous Taffo , and our Spenfer . Tasso in his Aminta ...
... last of his language . Among the moderns , their fuccefs has been greatest who have most endeavour'd to make these ancients their pattern . The most confiderable Genius appears in the famous Taffo , and our Spenfer . Tasso in his Aminta ...
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