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... 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 them , enclosed within a quickset hedge . The 4.
... 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 them , enclosed within a quickset hedge . The 4.
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... happy prince a palace with brazen walls and columns of silver , he cer- tainly intended that the garden should be pro- portionably magnificent . We are sure therefore , that as late as Homer's age an enclosure of four acres ...
... happy prince a palace with brazen walls and columns of silver , he cer- tainly intended that the garden should be pro- portionably magnificent . We are sure therefore , that as late as Homer's age an enclosure of four acres ...
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... happy rural seat of various view . Read this transporting description , paint to your mind the scenes that follow , contrast them with the savage but respectable terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his Paradise , fenced ...
... happy rural seat of various view . Read this transporting description , paint to your mind the scenes that follow , contrast them with the savage but respectable terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his Paradise , fenced ...
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