The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Translations and imitationsJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... retires , While I confume with more than Ætna's fires ! foul a charm in mufic finds ; No more my Mufic has charms alone for peaceful minds . 10 . Nec me Pyrrhiades Methymniadefve puellae , Nec me Lesbiadum caetera A 2 (3) ...
... retires , While I confume with more than Ætna's fires ! foul a charm in mufic finds ; No more my Mufic has charms alone for peaceful minds . 10 . Nec me Pyrrhiades Methymniadefve puellae , Nec me Lesbiadum caetera A 2 (3) ...
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... Mind . Those smiling eyes , attemp'ring ev'ry ray , Shone fweetly lambent with celeftial day . 61 Guiltless I gaz'd ; heav'n liften'd while you fung ; 65 And truths divine came mended from that tongue . From lips like those what precept ...
... Mind . Those smiling eyes , attemp'ring ev'ry ray , Shone fweetly lambent with celeftial day . 61 Guiltless I gaz'd ; heav'n liften'd while you fung ; 65 And truths divine came mended from that tongue . From lips like those what precept ...
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... mind ! 200 205 Each pray'r accepted , and each with refign'd ; 210 Labour and reft , that equal periods keep ; " Obedient : flumbers than can wake and weep , " Defires compos'd , affections ever ev❜n ; Tears that delight , and fighs ...
... mind ! 200 205 Each pray'r accepted , and each with refign'd ; 210 Labour and reft , that equal periods keep ; " Obedient : flumbers than can wake and weep , " Defires compos'd , affections ever ev❜n ; Tears that delight , and fighs ...
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... mind 165 With boundless pow'r unbounded virtue join'd , His own ftrict judge , and patron of mankind . Much - fuff'ing heroes next their honours claim , Thofe of less noify , and lefs guilty fame , Fair Virtue's filent train : fupreme ...
... mind 165 With boundless pow'r unbounded virtue join'd , His own ftrict judge , and patron of mankind . Much - fuff'ing heroes next their honours claim , Thofe of less noify , and lefs guilty fame , Fair Virtue's filent train : fupreme ...
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... mind , Or dotage turn'd his brain , is hard to find ; But his high courage prick'd him forth to wed , And try the pleasures of a lawful bed . NOTES . ΤΟ JANUARY AND MAY ] This Tranflation was done at fixteen or feventeen years of Age ...
... mind , Or dotage turn'd his brain , is hard to find ; But his high courage prick'd him forth to wed , And try the pleasures of a lawful bed . NOTES . ΤΟ JANUARY AND MAY ] This Tranflation was done at fixteen or feventeen years of Age ...
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Page 30 - With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God.
Page 31 - Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 19 - Phaon's hate, And hope from seas and rocks a milder fate. Ye gentle gales, beneath my body blow, And softly lay me on the waves below!
Page 29 - ... on earth there be), And once the lot of Abelard and me. Alas, how chang'd ! what...
Page 26 - Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine. Nor foes nor fortune take this power away; And is my Abelard less kind than they?
Page 36 - Ah come not, write not, think not once of me, Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign, Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine.
Page 39 - When this rebellious heart shall beat no more; If ever chance two wand'ring lovers brings To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs, O'er the pale marble shall they join their heads, And drink the falling tears each other sheds, 350 Then sadly say, with mutual pity mov'd, "Oh may we never love as these have lov'd!
Page 29 - Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part, And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. This sure is bliss (if bliss on earth there be) And once the lot of Abelard and me.
Page 26 - Nor prayers nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain, Nor tears for ages taught to flow in vain. Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.
Page 31 - The darksome pines, that o'er yon rocks reclin'd, Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind, The wandering streams that shine between the hills, The grots that echo to the tinkling rills, The dying gales that pant upon the trees, The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze...