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Europe a woman , child , or dotard rule , 13 And just her wisest monarch made a fool ? Know , God and Nature only are the same : In man , the judgment shoots at flying game ; A bird of passage ! gone as soon as found , Now in the moon ...
Europe a woman , child , or dotard rule , 13 And just her wisest monarch made a fool ? Know , God and Nature only are the same : In man , the judgment shoots at flying game ; A bird of passage ! gone as soon as found , Now in the moon ...
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... A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies , sad outcast of each church and state , And , harder still ! flagitious , yet not great . Ask you why WHARTON broke through every rule ?
... A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies , sad outcast of each church and state , And , harder still ! flagitious , yet not great . Ask you why WHARTON broke through every rule ?
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... or hear 25 Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear ; 260 She who ne'er answers till a husband cools , Or , if she rules him , never shows she rules ; and Pope frequently alludes with great bitterness to the theft and its author .
... or hear 25 Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear ; 260 She who ne'er answers till a husband cools , Or , if she rules him , never shows she rules ; and Pope frequently alludes with great bitterness to the theft and its author .
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Heaven , when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work , but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex , to make the favourite blest , Your love of pleasure , our desire of rest : Blends , in exception to all general rules ...
Heaven , when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work , but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex , to make the favourite blest , Your love of pleasure , our desire of rest : Blends , in exception to all general rules ...
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If this be a rule , I am certain you are not Dean Swift , for twelve years ago your promised letter had not been so long in coming to me . All I can say is , I wish you had been twelve years ago what I wish you now , [ a bishop ? ] ...
If this be a rule , I am certain you are not Dean Swift , for twelve years ago your promised letter had not been so long in coming to me . All I can say is , I wish you had been twelve years ago what I wish you now , [ a bishop ? ] ...
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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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