The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... falls in better with your subject than any of our natural wants , which in some degree we cannot avoid pursuing to ... falling asleep one day , after dinner , with Sir Richard Temple , Lord Cobham , the General , the latter reproached ...
... falls in better with your subject than any of our natural wants , which in some degree we cannot avoid pursuing to ... falling asleep one day , after dinner , with Sir Richard Temple , Lord Cobham , the General , the latter reproached ...
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... forming the most striking and brilliant passages in the poem . ] NOTHING so true as what you once let fall : " Most women have no characters at all . " Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear , And EP . II . ] 21 MORAL ESSAYS .
... forming the most striking and brilliant passages in the poem . ] NOTHING so true as what you once let fall : " Most women have no characters at all . " Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear , And EP . II . ] 21 MORAL ESSAYS .
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... fall , and in it Catch , ere she change , the Cynthia of this minute . Rufa , whose eye quick glancing o'er the park , 3 Attracts each light gay meteor of a spark , Agrees as ill with Rufa studying Locke , As Sappho's diamonds with her ...
... fall , and in it Catch , ere she change , the Cynthia of this minute . Rufa , whose eye quick glancing o'er the park , 3 Attracts each light gay meteor of a spark , Agrees as ill with Rufa studying Locke , As Sappho's diamonds with her ...
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... fall again to dust . 140 Last night , her lord was all that's good and great ; A knave this morning , and his will a cheat . Strange ! by the means defeated of the ends , By spirit robbed of power , by warmth of friends , By wealth of ...
... fall again to dust . 140 Last night , her lord was all that's good and great ; A knave this morning , and his will a cheat . Strange ! by the means defeated of the ends , By spirit robbed of power , by warmth of friends , By wealth of ...
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... fall . 26 265 And yet , believe me , good as well as ill , Woman's at best a contradiction still . Heaven , when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work , but forms a softer man ; 270 Picks from each sex , to make the ...
... fall . 26 265 And yet , believe me , good as well as ill , Woman's at best a contradiction still . Heaven , when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work , but forms a softer man ; 270 Picks from each sex , to make the ...
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