The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... kind : To him each Rival shall submit , Make but his Riches equal to his Wit . Then shall thy Form the Marble grace , ( Thy Grecian Form ) and Chloe lend the Face : His House , embosom'd in the Grove , Sacred to focial life and focial ...
... kind : To him each Rival shall submit , Make but his Riches equal to his Wit . Then shall thy Form the Marble grace , ( Thy Grecian Form ) and Chloe lend the Face : His House , embosom'd in the Grove , Sacred to focial life and focial ...
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... kind Deceivers of the foul ! But why ? ah tell me , ah too dear ! Steals down my cheek th ' involuntary Tear ? Why words fo flowing , thoughts fo free , Stop , or turn nonsense , at one glance of thee ? Thee , dreft in Fancy's airy beam ...
... kind Deceivers of the foul ! But why ? ah tell me , ah too dear ! Steals down my cheek th ' involuntary Tear ? Why words fo flowing , thoughts fo free , Stop , or turn nonsense , at one glance of thee ? Thee , dreft in Fancy's airy beam ...
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... Then fhrinks to earth again . That Woman is a Worm , we find E'er fince our Grandame's evil ; She first convers'd with her own kind , That ancient Worm , the Devil . * The Learn'd themselves we Book - worms name , The MISCELLANIE S. 43.
... Then fhrinks to earth again . That Woman is a Worm , we find E'er fince our Grandame's evil ; She first convers'd with her own kind , That ancient Worm , the Devil . * The Learn'd themselves we Book - worms name , The MISCELLANIE S. 43.
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... Kind Boyle , before his poet , lays A table , with a cloth of bays ; And Ireland , mother of fweet fingers , Prefents her harp ftill to his fingers . The feast , his tow'ring genius marks In yonder wild - goofe and the larks ! The ...
... Kind Boyle , before his poet , lays A table , with a cloth of bays ; And Ireland , mother of fweet fingers , Prefents her harp ftill to his fingers . The feast , his tow'ring genius marks In yonder wild - goofe and the larks ! The ...
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... kind from other hands : yet , if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings . The nature of the Compofition itfelf is delicate ...
... kind from other hands : yet , if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings . The nature of the Compofition itfelf is delicate ...
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