The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... these , Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems . See the Trionfi of the former , and the Dream , Flower and the Leaf , & c . of the latter . The Author of this therefore chofe the fame fort of Exor- dium . B 2 As ...
... these , Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems . See the Trionfi of the former , and the Dream , Flower and the Leaf , & c . of the latter . The Author of this therefore chofe the fame fort of Exor- dium . B 2 As ...
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... These verses are hinted from the fol- lowing of Chaucer , Book 2 . The bebeld I fields and plains , Now hills , and now mountains , Now valeis , and now foreftes , And now unneth great beftes , Now rivers , now citees , Now towns , now ...
... These verses are hinted from the fol- lowing of Chaucer , Book 2 . The bebeld I fields and plains , Now hills , and now mountains , Now valeis , and now foreftes , And now unneth great beftes , Now rivers , now citees , Now towns , now ...
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... These ever new , nor fubject to decays , Spread , and grow brighter with the length of days . So Zembla's rocks ( the beauteous work of froft ) Rife white in air , and glitter o'er the coaft ; Pale funs , unfelt , at diftance roll away ...
... These ever new , nor fubject to decays , Spread , and grow brighter with the length of days . So Zembla's rocks ( the beauteous work of froft ) Rife white in air , and glitter o'er the coaft ; Pale funs , unfelt , at diftance roll away ...
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... 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 beginner of the Perfian , as Ninus was of the Affyrian ...
... 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 beginner of the Perfian , as Ninus was of the Affyrian ...
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... These were the priests and poets of those people , fo celebrated for their favage virtue . Thofe heroic barbarians accounted it a difhonour to die in their beds , and rufh'd on to certain death in the profpect of an after - life , and ...
... These were the priests and poets of those people , fo celebrated for their favage virtue . Thofe heroic barbarians accounted it a difhonour to die in their beds , and rufh'd on to certain death in the profpect of an after - life , and ...
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