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... what you will ; Wise , if a minister ; but , if a king , More wise , more learn'd , more just , more everything . Court - virtues bear , like gems , the highest rate , Born where Heaven's influence scarce can penetrate : In life's ...
... what you will ; Wise , if a minister ; but , if a king , More wise , more learn'd , more just , more everything . Court - virtues bear , like gems , the highest rate , Born where Heaven's influence scarce can penetrate : In life's ...
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Some god , or spirit , he has lately found ; Or chanced to meet a minister that frown'd . Judge we by nature ? Habit can efface , Interest o'ercomé , or policy take place : By actions ? those uncertainty divides ; By passions ? these ...
Some god , or spirit , he has lately found ; Or chanced to meet a minister that frown'd . Judge we by nature ? Habit can efface , Interest o'ercomé , or policy take place : By actions ? those uncertainty divides ; By passions ? these ...
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This fortunate man , who had rendered himself necessary to four successive sovereigns , and who was chief minister to Queen Anne during the first nine years of her reign , died in 1712. Though Godolphin had no literature , he did ...
This fortunate man , who had rendered himself necessary to four successive sovereigns , and who was chief minister to Queen Anne during the first nine years of her reign , died in 1712. Though Godolphin had no literature , he did ...
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The austerity and gloom of the monastery , the hair - shirt and nightly vigil , offer contrasts to splendid vice , and strike the imagination while they minister to penitence and remorse . Sir Walter Scott predicted that Byron would ...
The austerity and gloom of the monastery , the hair - shirt and nightly vigil , offer contrasts to splendid vice , and strike the imagination while they minister to penitence and remorse . Sir Walter Scott predicted that Byron would ...
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... the philosophers , ” in whose belief of the transmigration of souls she is disposed to concur , adding sarcastically , “ I have a great mind to believe that kings ' and first ministers ' souls when they die go into chimneysweeps .
... the philosophers , ” in whose belief of the transmigration of souls she is disposed to concur , adding sarcastically , “ I have a great mind to believe that kings ' and first ministers ' souls when they die go into chimneysweeps .
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| Title | The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Robert Carruthers |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | Robert Carruthers |
| Publisher | Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Mar 9, 2010 |
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