The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... wretched , and be flatter'd , poor ; All lucklefs wits their enemies profeft , And all fuccefsful , jealous friends at best . Nor Fame I flight , nor for her favours call ; She comes unlook'd for , if fhe comes at all . But if the ...
... wretched , and be flatter'd , poor ; All lucklefs wits their enemies profeft , And all fuccefsful , jealous friends at best . Nor Fame I flight , nor for her favours call ; She comes unlook'd for , if fhe comes at all . But if the ...
Page 35
... scorn the guilty bays , Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise , Unblemish'd let me live , or die unknown ; Oh grant an honeft fame , or grant me none ! D 2 SAPHO SAPH O то PHAON . From OVID . D 3 The TEMPLE of FA ME . 35.
... scorn the guilty bays , Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise , Unblemish'd let me live , or die unknown ; Oh grant an honeft fame , or grant me none ! D 2 SAPHO SAPH O то PHAON . From OVID . D 3 The TEMPLE of FA ME . 35.
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... wretched writer prove , To thy remembrance loft , as to thy love ? Afk not the cause that I new numbers chufe , The Lute neglected , and the Lyric muse ; Love taught my tears in fadder notes to flow , And tun'd my heart to Elegies of ...
... wretched writer prove , To thy remembrance loft , as to thy love ? Afk not the cause that I new numbers chufe , The Lute neglected , and the Lyric muse ; Love taught my tears in fadder notes to flow , And tun'd my heart to Elegies of ...
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... wretched weight , nor dread the deeps below ! She spoke , and vanish'd with the voice — I rise , And filent tears fall trickling from my eyes . I go , ye Nymphs ! those rocks and feas to prove ; How much I fear , but ah , how much I ...
... wretched weight , nor dread the deeps below ! She spoke , and vanish'd with the voice — I rise , And filent tears fall trickling from my eyes . I go , ye Nymphs ! those rocks and feas to prove ; How much I fear , but ah , how much I ...
Page 54
... ( Wretch that I am , to call that Phaon mine ! ) Ab quanto melius jungi mea pectora tecum , Quam poterant faxis præcipitanda dari ! Hæc funt illa Phaon , que tu laudare folebas , Vifaque funt toties ingeniofa tibi : Nunc vellem facunda ...
... ( Wretch that I am , to call that Phaon mine ! ) Ab quanto melius jungi mea pectora tecum , Quam poterant faxis præcipitanda dari ! Hæc funt illa Phaon , que tu laudare folebas , Vifaque funt toties ingeniofa tibi : Nunc vellem facunda ...
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