The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... appear'd of Wits renown'd ;, 35 I look'd again , nor could their trace be found . Critics I faw , that other names deface , And fix their own , with labour , in their place : Their own , like others , foon their place refign'd , Or ...
... appear'd of Wits renown'd ;, 35 I look'd again , nor could their trace be found . Critics I faw , that other names deface , And fix their own , with labour , in their place : Their own , like others , foon their place refign'd , Or ...
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... appears , The gather'd winter of a thousand years . On this foundation Fame's high temple ftands ; Stupendous pile ! not rear'd by mortal hands . Whate'er proud Rome , or artful Greece beheld , Or elder Babylon , its frame excell'd . Of ...
... appears , The gather'd winter of a thousand years . On this foundation Fame's high temple ftands ; Stupendous pile ! not rear'd by mortal hands . Whate'er proud Rome , or artful Greece beheld , Or elder Babylon , its frame excell'd . Of ...
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... appear'd , On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd , Crown'd with an architrave of antique mold , And sculpture rifing on the roughen'd gold , In fhaggy spoils here Thefeus was beheld , And Perfeus dreadful with Minerva's fhield : There ...
... appear'd , On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd , Crown'd with an architrave of antique mold , And sculpture rifing on the roughen'd gold , In fhaggy spoils here Thefeus was beheld , And Perfeus dreadful with Minerva's fhield : There ...
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... appear'd , And Brachmans , deep in defart woods rever'd . These stop'd the moon , and call'd th ' unbody'd fhades To midnight banquets in the glimmering glades ; ICO VER . 96. And the great Founder of the Perfian Name . ] Cyrus was the ...
... appear'd , And Brachmans , deep in defart woods rever'd . These stop'd the moon , and call'd th ' unbody'd fhades To midnight banquets in the glimmering glades ; ICO VER . 96. And the great Founder of the Perfian Name . ] Cyrus was the ...
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... appear , and roofs of fretted gold : Rais'd on a thousand pillars , wreath'd around With laurel - foliage , and with eagles crown'd : Of bright , tranfparent beryl were the walls , The freezes gold , and gold the capitals : As heav'n ...
... appear , and roofs of fretted gold : Rais'd on a thousand pillars , wreath'd around With laurel - foliage , and with eagles crown'd : Of bright , tranfparent beryl were the walls , The freezes gold , and gold the capitals : As heav'n ...
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