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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... 50 And ufe the copious talent it has giv'n : Let my good spouse pay tribute , do me right , And keep an equal reck'ning ev'ry night : His proper body is not his , but mine ; For fo faid Paul , and Paul's a found divine .
... 50 And ufe the copious talent it has giv'n : Let my good spouse pay tribute , do me right , And keep an equal reck'ning ev'ry night : His proper body is not his , but mine ; For fo faid Paul , and Paul's a found divine .
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316 Of twenty winters age he feem'd to be ; I ( to fay truth ) was twenty more than he ; But vig'rous still , a lively buxome dame ; And had a wond'rous gift to quench a flame . 520 A conj'rer once , that deeply could divine , Affur'd ...
316 Of twenty winters age he feem'd to be ; I ( to fay truth ) was twenty more than he ; But vig'rous still , a lively buxome dame ; And had a wond'rous gift to quench a flame . 520 A conj'rer once , that deeply could divine , Affur'd ...
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Or how from joining ftones the city sprung , While to his harp divine Amphion fung ? P. STATII THEBAIDOS . LIBRE PRIMUS . F RATERNAS acies , alternaque regna profanis Decertata odiis , fontefque evolvere Thebas , Pierius menti calor ...
Or how from joining ftones the city sprung , While to his harp divine Amphion fung ? P. STATII THEBAIDOS . LIBRE PRIMUS . F RATERNAS acies , alternaque regna profanis Decertata odiis , fontefque evolvere Thebas , Pierius menti calor ...
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A fhining fynod of majestic gods Gilds with new luftre the divine abodes ; Heav'n feems improv'd with a fuperior ray , And the bright arch reflects a double day . The Monarch then his folemn filence broke , The ftill Creation liften'd ...
A fhining fynod of majestic gods Gilds with new luftre the divine abodes ; Heav'n feems improv'd with a fuperior ray , And the bright arch reflects a double day . The Monarch then his folemn filence broke , The ftill Creation liften'd ...
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540 By both his parents of defcent divine , Great Jove and Phoebus grac'd his noble line : Heav'n had not crown'd his wishes with his fon , But two fair daughters heir'd his state and throne . To him Apollo ( wondrous to relate !
540 By both his parents of defcent divine , Great Jove and Phoebus grac'd his noble line : Heav'n had not crown'd his wishes with his fon , But two fair daughters heir'd his state and throne . To him Apollo ( wondrous to relate !
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