The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Eight Volumes, Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, 2. köide |
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Well , I may make my will in peace , and die , For not one word in man's arrears am I. To drop a dear difpute I was unable , Ev'n tho ' the Pope himself had sat at table . But when my point was gain'd , then thus I spoke , " Billy , my ...
Well , I may make my will in peace , and die , For not one word in man's arrears am I. To drop a dear difpute I was unable , Ev'n tho ' the Pope himself had sat at table . But when my point was gain'd , then thus I spoke , " Billy , my ...
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These now control a wretched people's fate , These can divide , and these reverse the state : 240 Ev'n Fortune rules no more : --O fervile land , Where exil'd tyrants ftill by turns command ! Et nufquam par ftare caput ?
These now control a wretched people's fate , These can divide , and these reverse the state : 240 Ev'n Fortune rules no more : --O fervile land , Where exil'd tyrants ftill by turns command ! Et nufquam par ftare caput ?
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Next a long order of inferior pow'rs Afcend from hills , and plains , and fhady bow'rs ; Those from whofe urns the rolling rivers flow ; And those that give the wand'ring winds to blow : Here all their rage , and ev'n their murmurs ...
Next a long order of inferior pow'rs Afcend from hills , and plains , and fhady bow'rs ; Those from whofe urns the rolling rivers flow ; And those that give the wand'ring winds to blow : Here all their rage , and ev'n their murmurs ...
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Yet ev'n in thofe obfcure abodes to live , Was more , alas ! than cruel fate would give ; • 685 How mean a fate , unhappy child ! is thine ? Ah how unworthy thofe of race divine ? On flow'ry herbs in fome green covert laid , His bed the ...
Yet ev'n in thofe obfcure abodes to live , Was more , alas ! than cruel fate would give ; • 685 How mean a fate , unhappy child ! is thine ? Ah how unworthy thofe of race divine ? On flow'ry herbs in fome green covert laid , His bed the ...
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730 The crowd in ftupid wonder fix'd appear , Pale ev'n in joy , nor yet forget to fear . Some with vaft beams the fqualid corpfe engage , And weary all the wild efforts of rage . The birds obfcene , that nightly flock'd to tafte ...
730 The crowd in ftupid wonder fix'd appear , Pale ev'n in joy , nor yet forget to fear . Some with vaft beams the fqualid corpfe engage , And weary all the wild efforts of rage . The birds obfcene , that nightly flock'd to tafte ...
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