The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideJames Nichol, 1856 - 326 pages |
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... beauty , must to all impart , At once the source , and end , and test of Art . Art from that fund each just supply provides , Works without show , and without pomp presides ; In some fair body thus the informing soul With spirits feeds ...
... beauty , must to all impart , At once the source , and end , and test of Art . Art from that fund each just supply provides , Works without show , and without pomp presides ; In some fair body thus the informing soul With spirits feeds ...
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... beauty call , But the joint force and full result of all . Thus when we view some well - proportion'd dome , ( The world's just wonder , and even thine , O Rome ! ) No single parts unequally surprise , All comes united to th ' admiring ...
... beauty call , But the joint force and full result of all . Thus when we view some well - proportion'd dome , ( The world's just wonder , and even thine , O Rome ! ) No single parts unequally surprise , All comes united to th ' admiring ...
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... beauty . If this poem had as many graces as there are in your person , or in your mind , yet I could never hope it should pass through the world half so uncensured as you have done . But let its fortune be what it will , mine is happy ...
... beauty . If this poem had as many graces as there are in your person , or in your mind , yet I could never hope it should pass through the world half so uncensured as you have done . But let its fortune be what it will , mine is happy ...
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... beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms , Repairs her smiles , awakens every grace , And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her ...
... beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms , Repairs her smiles , awakens every grace , And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her ...
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... beauty draws us with a single hair . The adventurous Baron1 the bright locks admired ; He saw , he wished , and to the prize aspired . Resolved to win , he meditates the way , By force to ravish , or by fraud betray ; For when success a ...
... beauty draws us with a single hair . The adventurous Baron1 the bright locks admired ; He saw , he wished , and to the prize aspired . Resolved to win , he meditates the way , By force to ravish , or by fraud betray ; For when success a ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient Bavius beauty bless'd blest bliss breast breath bright charms court cried critics crown'd Curll Cynthus divine Dunciad e'er earth ease Eclogues Elkanah Settle envy EPISTLE eternal eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flowers fools genius glory Gnome grace groves happy head heart Heaven honour Horace Iliad kings knave laws learn'd live Lord Lord Bolingbroke mankind mind mortal Muse Muse's Nature Nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral peace plain pleased poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride proud rage reason rhyme rise sacred Sappho satire sense shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul spleen Sylphs taught tears Thalestris thee Theocritus things thou thought trembling truth Twas Umbriel VARIATIONS verse virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY whate'er Whig wings write youth