The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... thee ( they cry'd ) amidst alarms and strife , We fail'd in tempefts down the stream of life ; For thee whole nations fill'd with flames and blood , And fwam to empire thro ' the purple flood . Thofe ills we dar'd , thy inspiration own ...
... thee ( they cry'd ) amidst alarms and strife , We fail'd in tempefts down the stream of life ; For thee whole nations fill'd with flames and blood , And fwam to empire thro ' the purple flood . Thofe ills we dar'd , thy inspiration own ...
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... thee , to conceal from fight Those acts of goodness , which themselves requite . O let us ftill the fecret joy partake , 360 To follow virtue ev'n for virtue's fake . 365 And live there men who flight immortal fame ? Who then with ...
... thee , to conceal from fight Those acts of goodness , which themselves requite . O let us ftill the fecret joy partake , 360 To follow virtue ev'n for virtue's fake . 365 And live there men who flight immortal fame ? Who then with ...
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... thee . 30 The Mufes teach me all their fofteft lays , And the wide world refounds with Sapho's praife . Tho ' great Alcaus more fublimely fings , And strikes with boider rage the founding ftrings , No lefs renown attends the moving lyre ...
... thee . 30 The Mufes teach me all their fofteft lays , And the wide world refounds with Sapho's praife . Tho ' great Alcaus more fublimely fings , And strikes with boider rage the founding ftrings , No lefs renown attends the moving lyre ...
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... thee , the laft and greatest of my woes ? No more my robes in waving purple flow , Nor on my hand the sparkling diamonds glow ; No more my locks in ringlets curl'd diffuse The coftly sweetness of Arabian dews , 15 80 Nor braids of gold ...
... thee , the laft and greatest of my woes ? No more my robes in waving purple flow , Nor on my hand the sparkling diamonds glow ; No more my locks in ringlets curl'd diffuse The coftly sweetness of Arabian dews , 15 80 Nor braids of gold ...
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... , timebam ; Et faceres : fed te prima rapina tenet . Hunc fi confpiciat , quæ confpicit omnia , Phabe ; Juffus erit fomnos continuare Phaon . 90 95 100 90 100 Venus Venus for those had rapt thee to the skies , SAPHO to PHAON . 45.
... , timebam ; Et faceres : fed te prima rapina tenet . Hunc fi confpiciat , quæ confpicit omnia , Phabe ; Juffus erit fomnos continuare Phaon . 90 95 100 90 100 Venus Venus for those had rapt thee to the skies , SAPHO to PHAON . 45.
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