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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In all these trials I have borne a part , 5 I was myself the fcourge that caus'd the smart ; For , fince fifteen , in triumph have I led Five captive hufbands from the church to bed . Chrift faw a wedding once , the Scripture fays ...
In all these trials I have borne a part , 5 I was myself the fcourge that caus'd the smart ; For , fince fifteen , in triumph have I led Five captive hufbands from the church to bed . Chrift faw a wedding once , the Scripture fays ...
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35 I envy not their blifs , if he or she Think fit to live in perfect chastity ; Pure let them be , and free from taint or vice ; I , for a few flight fpots , am not so nice . Heav'n calls us diff'rent ways , on these bestows 40 One ...
35 I envy not their blifs , if he or she Think fit to live in perfect chastity ; Pure let them be , and free from taint or vice ; I , for a few flight fpots , am not so nice . Heav'n calls us diff'rent ways , on these bestows 40 One ...
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Lo thus , my friends , I wrought to my defires These three right ancient venerable fires . I told ' em , Thus you fay , and thus you do , 150 And told ' em falfe , but Jenkin fwore ' twas true . I , like a deg , could bite as well as ...
Lo thus , my friends , I wrought to my defires These three right ancient venerable fires . I told ' em , Thus you fay , and thus you do , 150 And told ' em falfe , but Jenkin fwore ' twas true . I , like a deg , could bite as well as ...
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draftus entertains them , having received an oracle from Apollo , that his daughters fhould be married to a boar and a lion , which he understands to be meant of these strangers by whom the hides of those beafts were worn , and who ...
draftus entertains them , having received an oracle from Apollo , that his daughters fhould be married to a boar and a lion , which he understands to be meant of these strangers by whom the hides of those beafts were worn , and who ...
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... The wretch then lifted to th ' unpitying skies Thofe empty orbs from whence he tore his eyes , Whofe wounds , yet fresh , with bloody hands he ftrook , 70 75 While from his breast these dreadful accents broke .
... The wretch then lifted to th ' unpitying skies Thofe empty orbs from whence he tore his eyes , Whofe wounds , yet fresh , with bloody hands he ftrook , 70 75 While from his breast these dreadful accents broke .
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