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... Paradise with which the gods ordain'd To grace Alcinous and his happy land ? POPE Why , divested of harmonious Greek & bewitch- ing poetry , it was a small orchard and vineyard , with some beds of herbs and two fountains that watered ...
... Paradise with which the gods ordain'd To grace Alcinous and his happy land ? POPE Why , divested of harmonious Greek & bewitch- ing poetry , it was a small orchard and vineyard , with some beds of herbs and two fountains that watered ...
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... , on evil days though fallen , & with darkness and solitude compassed round , judged that the mistaken and fantastic ornaments he had seen in gardens , were unworthy of the almighty hand that planted the delights of Paradise . He seems 23.
... , on evil days though fallen , & with darkness and solitude compassed round , judged that the mistaken and fantastic ornaments he had seen in gardens , were unworthy of the almighty hand that planted the delights of Paradise . He seems 23.
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... Paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots , but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill and dale and plain , Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field , and where the unpierc'd shade Imbrown'd the noon ...
... Paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots , but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill and dale and plain , Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field , and where the unpierc'd shade Imbrown'd the noon ...
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