The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... Nature seem , Trifles themfelves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efteem no lefs convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books ...
... Nature seem , Trifles themfelves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efteem no lefs convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books ...
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... nature yielding , stubborn but for fame ; Made Slaves by Honour , and made fools by Shame . Marriage may all thofe petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in his place : Well might you wish for change by those accurst , But ...
... nature yielding , stubborn but for fame ; Made Slaves by Honour , and made fools by Shame . Marriage may all thofe petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in his place : Well might you wish for change by those accurst , But ...
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... nature ; Lean and fretful ; would feem wife Yet plays the fool before fhe dies . ' Tis an ugly envious Shrew , ' That rails at dear Lepell and You .. ; Occafioned by fome Verses of his Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM . MUSE , ' tis enough ...
... nature ; Lean and fretful ; would feem wife Yet plays the fool before fhe dies . ' Tis an ugly envious Shrew , ' That rails at dear Lepell and You .. ; Occafioned by fome Verses of his Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM . MUSE , ' tis enough ...
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... Nature must give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever blooming , Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks , See my weary Days consuming , All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks . III . Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping , Mourn'd Adonis , darling Youth ...
... Nature must give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever blooming , Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks , See my weary Days consuming , All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks . III . Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping , Mourn'd Adonis , darling Youth ...
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... NATURE ftudiously behold ! And eye the Mine without a wifh for Gold .-- Approach but awful ! Lo ! th ' Egerian Grott ... natural and proper in this place , where the Poet was defcribing a Grotto incrufted and adorn- ed with all forts of ...
... NATURE ftudiously behold ! And eye the Mine without a wifh for Gold .-- Approach but awful ! Lo ! th ' Egerian Grott ... natural and proper in this place , where the Poet was defcribing a Grotto incrufted and adorn- ed with all forts of ...
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