The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... beauty of Stowe , and the virtues of Cobham , are also cut on the pillar : - " And you brave Cobham , to the latest breath , Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death ; Such in those moments as in all the past , Oh , save my ...
... beauty of Stowe , and the virtues of Cobham , are also cut on the pillar : - " And you brave Cobham , to the latest breath , Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death ; Such in those moments as in all the past , Oh , save my ...
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... beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes , Less wit than mimic , more a wit than wise ; Strange graces still , and stranger flights she had , Was just not ugly , and was just not mad ; Yet ne'er so sure our passion to ...
... beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes , Less wit than mimic , more a wit than wise ; Strange graces still , and stranger flights she had , Was just not ugly , and was just not mad ; Yet ne'er so sure our passion to ...
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... beauty all the means : In youth they conquer with so wild a rage , As leaves them scarce a subject in their age : For foreign glory , foreign joy , they roam ; No thought of peace or happiness at home . But wisdom's triumph is well ...
... beauty all the means : In youth they conquer with so wild a rage , As leaves them scarce a subject in their age : For foreign glory , foreign joy , they roam ; No thought of peace or happiness at home . But wisdom's triumph is well ...
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... beauty , but denied the pelf 285 That buys your sex a tyrant o'er itself . The generous god , who wit and gold refines , And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , 290 Kept dross for duchesses , the world shall know it , To you gave sense ...
... beauty , but denied the pelf 285 That buys your sex a tyrant o'er itself . The generous god , who wit and gold refines , And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , 290 Kept dross for duchesses , the world shall know it , To you gave sense ...
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... beauty , with occasional fits of generosity and affection , relieve this gloomy picture of old age , " joyless and unendeared , " and attach a degree of interest to the name and history of the clever termagant Duchess . Pope was ...
... beauty , with occasional fits of generosity and affection , relieve this gloomy picture of old age , " joyless and unendeared , " and attach a degree of interest to the name and history of the clever termagant Duchess . Pope was ...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Ed by the Rev H F Cary Alexander Pope No preview available - 2006 |
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