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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... the Samaritan : Five times in lawful wedlock she was join'd ; 15 And fure the certain ftint was ne'er defin'd . Increafe and multiply , was Heav'n's command , And that's a text I clearly understand . This too , " Let men their fires ...
... the Samaritan : Five times in lawful wedlock she was join'd ; 15 And fure the certain ftint was ne'er defin'd . Increafe and multiply , was Heav'n's command , And that's a text I clearly understand . This too , " Let men their fires ...
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There's danger in affembling fire and tow ; I grant ' em that , and what it means you know . The fame apoftle too has elsewhere own'd , No precept for virginity he found : ' Tis but a counsel ---- and we women still Take which we like ...
There's danger in affembling fire and tow ; I grant ' em that , and what it means you know . The fame apoftle too has elsewhere own'd , No precept for virginity he found : ' Tis but a counsel ---- and we women still Take which we like ...
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... what need you 132 135 care How merrily foever others fare ? Tho ' all the day I give and take delight , Doubt not , fufficient will be left at night . " Tis but a just and rational defire , To light a taper at a neighbour's fire .
... what need you 132 135 care How merrily foever others fare ? Tho ' all the day I give and take delight , Doubt not , fufficient will be left at night . " Tis but a just and rational defire , To light a taper at a neighbour's fire .
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Fair Venus gave me fire , and sprightly grace , 325 And Mars affurance , and a dauntless face . By virtue of this pow'rful conftellation , I follow'd always my own inclination . But to my tale : A month fcarce pass'd away , With dance ...
Fair Venus gave me fire , and sprightly grace , 325 And Mars affurance , and a dauntless face . By virtue of this pow'rful conftellation , I follow'd always my own inclination . But to my tale : A month fcarce pass'd away , With dance ...
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How Samfon fell ; and he whom Dejanire 381 Wrapp'd in th ' invenom'd shirt , and fet on fire . How curs'd Eryphile her lord betray'd , And the dire ambush Clytemnestra laid . But what most pleas'd him was the Cretan Dame , And husband ...
How Samfon fell ; and he whom Dejanire 381 Wrapp'd in th ' invenom'd shirt , and fet on fire . How curs'd Eryphile her lord betray'd , And the dire ambush Clytemnestra laid . But what most pleas'd him was the Cretan Dame , And husband ...
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