The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... passions , opinions , manners , humours , or principles , all subject to change . No judging by nature , from ver . 158 to ver . 178. III . It only remains to find ( if we can ) his ruling passion : that will certainly influence all the ...
... passions , opinions , manners , humours , or principles , all subject to change . No judging by nature , from ver . 158 to ver . 178. III . It only remains to find ( if we can ) his ruling passion : that will certainly influence all the ...
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... passion's strife , And all opinion's colours cast on life . Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds , Quick ... passions shown . Or fancy's beam enlarges , multiplies , Contracts , inverts , and gives ten thousand dyes . Nor will ...
... passion's strife , And all opinion's colours cast on life . Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds , Quick ... passions shown . Or fancy's beam enlarges , multiplies , Contracts , inverts , and gives ten thousand dyes . Nor will ...
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... PASSION : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; 175 The fool consistent , and the false sincere ; Priests , princes , women , no dissemblers here . This clew once found unravels all the rest , The prospect ...
... PASSION : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; 175 The fool consistent , and the false sincere ; Priests , princes , women , no dissemblers here . This clew once found unravels all the rest , The prospect ...
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... passion still , to covet general praise , His life , to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made ; An angel tongue , which no man can persuade ; A fool , with more of wit than half mankind , Too rash for ...
... passion still , to covet general praise , His life , to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made ; An angel tongue , which no man can persuade ; A fool , with more of wit than half mankind , Too rash for ...
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... passion man can strength enjoy , As fits give vigour , just when they destroy . Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . Consistent in our follies and our sins , Here honest ...
... passion man can strength enjoy , As fits give vigour , just when they destroy . Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . Consistent in our follies and our sins , Here honest ...
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