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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... And mighty Cæfar's conqu'ring eagles fing ; How twice he tam'd proud Ifter's rapid flood , 25 While Dacian mountains ftream'd with barb'rous 20 blood ; Twice taught the Rhine beneath his laws to roll , And ftretch'd his empire to ...
... And mighty Cæfar's conqu'ring eagles fing ; How twice he tam'd proud Ifter's rapid flood , 25 While Dacian mountains ftream'd with barb'rous 20 blood ; Twice taught the Rhine beneath his laws to roll , And ftretch'd his empire to ...
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190 195 Yet then , no proud aspiring piles were rais'd , No fretted roofs with polish'd metals blaz'd ; 201 No labour'd columns in long order plac'd , No Grecian ftone the pompous arches grac'd ; No nightly bands in glitt'ring armour ...
190 195 Yet then , no proud aspiring piles were rais'd , No fretted roofs with polish'd metals blaz'd ; 201 No labour'd columns in long order plac'd , No Grecian ftone the pompous arches grac'd ; No nightly bands in glitt'ring armour ...
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But Fortune now ( the lots of empire thrown ) Decrees to proud Eteocles the crown : What joys , oh tyrant ! fwell'd thy foul that day , When all were flaves thou couldft around furvey , Pleas'd to behold unbounded pow'r thy own ...
But Fortune now ( the lots of empire thrown ) Decrees to proud Eteocles the crown : What joys , oh tyrant ! fwell'd thy foul that day , When all were flaves thou couldft around furvey , Pleas'd to behold unbounded pow'r thy own ...
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Or pleas'd to find fair Delos float no more , Delight in Cynthus , and the fhady shore ; Or chufe thy feat in Ilion's proud abodes , 835 The fhining structures rais'd by lab'ring gods : By thee the bow and mortal shafts are born ...
Or pleas'd to find fair Delos float no more , Delight in Cynthus , and the fhady shore ; Or chufe thy feat in Ilion's proud abodes , 835 The fhining structures rais'd by lab'ring gods : By thee the bow and mortal shafts are born ...
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W eyes ; HILE Celia's tears make forrow bright , Proud Grief fits fwelling in her The fun , next those the faireft light , Thus from the ocean first did rife : And And thus through mifts we see the fun , Which 78 IMITATIONS OF Of COWLEY ...
W eyes ; HILE Celia's tears make forrow bright , Proud Grief fits fwelling in her The fun , next those the faireft light , Thus from the ocean first did rife : And And thus through mifts we see the fun , Which 78 IMITATIONS OF Of COWLEY ...
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