The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... still in ev'ry state , And scarce detefted in his Country's fate . But chief were those , who not for empire fought , But with their toils their people's fafety bought : 160 High o'er the rest Epaminondas stood ; Timoleon , glorious in ...
... still in ev'ry state , And scarce detefted in his Country's fate . But chief were those , who not for empire fought , But with their toils their people's fafety bought : 160 High o'er the rest Epaminondas stood ; Timoleon , glorious in ...
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... still he fix'd a rev'rend eye , Great without pride , in modeft majesty . In living sculpture on the fides were spread The Latian wars , and haughty Turnus dead ; VER . 196 , & c . ] There faw I ftand on a pillere That was of tinned ...
... still he fix'd a rev'rend eye , Great without pride , in modeft majesty . In living sculpture on the fides were spread The Latian wars , and haughty Turnus dead ; VER . 196 , & c . ] There faw I ftand on a pillere That was of tinned ...
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... he gan blow their loos fo cleare , In his golden clarioune , Through the world went the foune , All fo kindly , and eke fo foft , That their fame was blowen aloft . But But mortals ! know , ' tis still our greatest 26 The TEMPLE of FAME .
... he gan blow their loos fo cleare , In his golden clarioune , Through the world went the foune , All fo kindly , and eke fo foft , That their fame was blowen aloft . But But mortals ! know , ' tis still our greatest 26 The TEMPLE of FAME .
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... still in fancy vanquish'd ev'ry maid ; Of unknown Ducheffes leud tales we tell , Yet would the world believe us , all were well . 385 VER . 378. Next thefe a youthful train , & c . ] The reader may compare these twenty eight lines ...
... still in fancy vanquish'd ev'ry maid ; Of unknown Ducheffes leud tales we tell , Yet would the world believe us , all were well . 385 VER . 378. Next thefe a youthful train , & c . ] The reader may compare these twenty eight lines ...
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... still unfolded ftand , by night , by day , Pervious to winds , and open ev'ry way . As flames by nature to the skies ascend , As weighty bodies to the centre tend , As to the fea returning rivers roll , 425 430 And the touch'd needle ...
... still unfolded ftand , by night , by day , Pervious to winds , and open ev'ry way . As flames by nature to the skies ascend , As weighty bodies to the centre tend , As to the fea returning rivers roll , 425 430 And the touch'd needle ...
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