The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... walls in venerable order grace : Heroes in animated marble frown , And Legiflators seem to think in ftone . Weftward , a fumptuous frontispiece appear'd , On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd , Crown'd with an architrave of antique ...
... walls in venerable order grace : Heroes in animated marble frown , And Legiflators seem to think in ftone . Weftward , a fumptuous frontispiece appear'd , On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd , Crown'd with an architrave of antique ...
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... wall : There might you see the length'ning fpires afcend , The domes fwell up , the widening arches bend , * The growing tow'rs like exhalations rise , And the huge columns heave into the skies . The Eastern front was glorious to behold ...
... wall : There might you see the length'ning fpires afcend , The domes fwell up , the widening arches bend , * The growing tow'rs like exhalations rise , And the huge columns heave into the skies . The Eastern front was glorious to behold ...
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... walls with Hieroglyphics grac'd . 105 110 115 VER . 110. Egypt's Priefs , & c . ] The learning of the old Egyptian Priefts confifted for the most part in geometry and aftronomy : They alfo preferv'd the Hi- itory of their nation . Their ...
... walls with Hieroglyphics grac'd . 105 110 115 VER . 110. Egypt's Priefs , & c . ] The learning of the old Egyptian Priefts confifted for the most part in geometry and aftronomy : They alfo preferv'd the Hi- itory of their nation . Their ...
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... in their beds , and rufh'd on to certain death in the profpect of an after - life , and for the glory of a fong from their bards in praise of their actions . In ; In ranks adorn'd the temples outward face The wall The TEMPLE of FAME . 11.
... in their beds , and rufh'd on to certain death in the profpect of an after - life , and for the glory of a fong from their bards in praise of their actions . In ; In ranks adorn'd the temples outward face The wall The TEMPLE of FAME . 11.
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Alexander Pope. ; In ranks adorn'd the temples outward face The wall in luftre and effect like Glass , Which o'er each object cafting various dyes , Enlarges fome , and others multiplies : Nor void of emblem was the mystic wall , For ...
Alexander Pope. ; In ranks adorn'd the temples outward face The wall in luftre and effect like Glass , Which o'er each object cafting various dyes , Enlarges fome , and others multiplies : Nor void of emblem was the mystic wall , For ...
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