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As the last image of that troubled heap , When sense subsides , and fancy sports in sleep ( Though past the recollection of the thought ) , Becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought ; Something as dim to our internal view ...
As the last image of that troubled heap , When sense subsides , and fancy sports in sleep ( Though past the recollection of the thought ) , Becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought ; Something as dim to our internal view ...
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... Too rash for thought , for action too refined ; 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 .
... Too rash for thought , for action too refined ; 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 .
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Several attribute this in particular to a very celebrated actress , who , in detestation of the thought of being buried in woollen , gave these her last orders with her dying breath . 260 “ I give and I devise ( old Euclio.
Several attribute this in particular to a very celebrated actress , who , in detestation of the thought of being buried in woollen , gave these her last orders with her dying breath . 260 “ I give and I devise ( old Euclio.
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It must have been by this light , that Young afterwards composed his Night Thoughts ! MRS . OLDFIELD . Ver . 246. Odious ! in woollen ! ' t would a saint provoke , ( Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke . ) ...
It must have been by this light , that Young afterwards composed his Night Thoughts ! MRS . OLDFIELD . Ver . 246. Odious ! in woollen ! ' t would a saint provoke , ( Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke . ) ...
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What then ? let blood and body bear the fault , Her head's untouch'd , that noble seat of thought : Such this day's doctrine — in another fit She sins with poets through pure love of wit . What has not fired her bosom or her brain ?
What then ? let blood and body bear the fault , Her head's untouch'd , that noble seat of thought : Such this day's doctrine — in another fit She sins with poets through pure love of wit . What has not fired her bosom or her brain ?
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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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