The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 - English literature |
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... bear : 50 " Great Bard , whose numbers I myself infpire , To whom I gave my own harmonious lyre , If high exalted on the Throne of Wit , Near Me and Homer thou aspire to fit , No more let meaner Satire dim the rays That flow majestic ...
... bear : 50 " Great Bard , whose numbers I myself infpire , To whom I gave my own harmonious lyre , If high exalted on the Throne of Wit , Near Me and Homer thou aspire to fit , No more let meaner Satire dim the rays That flow majestic ...
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... bears Tell me but this , and I'll difclaim the prize , And give the conqueft to thy Sylvia's eyes . DAPHNI S. Nay tell me first , in what more happy fields The Thistle fprings , to which the Lily yields : 90 And then a nobler prize I ...
... bears Tell me but this , and I'll difclaim the prize , And give the conqueft to thy Sylvia's eyes . DAPHNI S. Nay tell me first , in what more happy fields The Thistle fprings , to which the Lily yields : 90 And then a nobler prize I ...
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... bear , And lift'ning wolves grow milder as they hear . So the verfes were originally written . But the author , young as he was , foon found the abfurdity which Spenfer himself overlooked , of introducing wolves into England . P ...
... bear , And lift'ning wolves grow milder as they hear . So the verfes were originally written . But the author , young as he was , foon found the abfurdity which Spenfer himself overlooked , of introducing wolves into England . P ...
Page 78
... bear my fighs away ! To Delia's ear the tender notes convey . As fome fad Turtle his loft love deplores , And with deep murmurs fills the founding fhores ; Thus , far from Delia , to the winds I mourn , Alike unheard , unpity'd , and ...
... bear my fighs away ! To Delia's ear the tender notes convey . As fome fad Turtle his loft love deplores , And with deep murmurs fills the founding fhores ; Thus , far from Delia , to the winds I mourn , Alike unheard , unpity'd , and ...
Page 79
... bear my fighs along ! The birds fhall cease to tune their ev'ning fong , 40 The winds to breathe , the waving woods to move , And streams to murmur , ere I ceafe to love . Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain , Not balmy fleep to ...
... bear my fighs along ! The birds fhall cease to tune their ev'ning fong , 40 The winds to breathe , the waving woods to move , And streams to murmur , ere I ceafe to love . Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain , Not balmy fleep to ...
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Page 99 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
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