The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... flames for ever prey , By night he scorches , as he burns by day . AUTUMN . THE THIRD PASTORAL , OR HYLAS AND ÆGON . To Mr. Wycherley . BENEATH the shade a spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon sung their rural Jays : This mourn'd a ...
... flames for ever prey , By night he scorches , as he burns by day . AUTUMN . THE THIRD PASTORAL , OR HYLAS AND ÆGON . To Mr. Wycherley . BENEATH the shade a spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon sung their rural Jays : This mourn'd a ...
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... flame , Like them in beauty , should be like in fame . Here hills and vales , the woodland and the plain , Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos - like together crush'd and bruis'd , But , as the world , harmoniously ...
... flame , Like them in beauty , should be like in fame . Here hills and vales , the woodland and the plain , Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos - like together crush'd and bruis'd , But , as the world , harmoniously ...
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... flames with gold ? Nor yet , when moist Arcturus clouds the sky , The woods and fields their pleasing toils deny . To plains with well - breath'd beagles we repair , And trace the mazes of the circling hare ( Beasts , urg'd by us ...
... flames with gold ? Nor yet , when moist Arcturus clouds the sky , The woods and fields their pleasing toils deny . To plains with well - breath'd beagles we repair , And trace the mazes of the circling hare ( Beasts , urg'd by us ...
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... flames glow round the frozen pole ; Or under southern skies exalt their sails , Led by new stars , and borne by spicy gales ! For me the balm shall bleed , and amber flow , The coral redden , and the ruby glow , The pearly shell its ...
... flames glow round the frozen pole ; Or under southern skies exalt their sails , Led by new stars , and borne by spicy gales ! For me the balm shall bleed , and amber flow , The coral redden , and the ruby glow , The pearly shell its ...
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... flame . Love , soft intruder , enters here , But entering learns to be sincere . Marcus with blushes owns he loves ... flames the gods approve ; The gods and Brutus bend to love : Brutus for absent Porcia sighs , And sterner Cassius ...
... flame . Love , soft intruder , enters here , But entering learns to be sincere . Marcus with blushes owns he loves ... flames the gods approve ; The gods and Brutus bend to love : Brutus for absent Porcia sighs , And sterner Cassius ...
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