The Poetical Works: Of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. In Four Volumes. From the Text of Dr. Warburton. ...printed under the direction of J. Bell, 1787 |
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... Proud Grief sits swelling in her eyes ; The sun , next those the fairest light , Thus from the ocean first did rise : And thus thro ' mists we see the sun , 5 Which else we durst not gaze upon . These silver drops , like morning dew ...
... Proud Grief sits swelling in her eyes ; The sun , next those the fairest light , Thus from the ocean first did rise : And thus thro ' mists we see the sun , 5 Which else we durst not gaze upon . These silver drops , like morning dew ...
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... proud , Her voice theatrically loud , And masculine her stride . So have I seen , in black and white , A prating thing , a magpie hight , Majestically stalk ; A stately worthless animal , That plies the tongue , and wags the tail , All ...
... proud , Her voice theatrically loud , And masculine her stride . So have I seen , in black and white , A prating thing , a magpie hight , Majestically stalk ; A stately worthless animal , That plies the tongue , and wags the tail , All ...
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... Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! .... Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet or peer Lost the arch'd eyebrow or Parnassian sneer ' ? ' And has not Colly still his lord and whore ? His butchers Henley , his free - masons Moore ? Does ...
... Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! .... Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet or peer Lost the arch'd eyebrow or Parnassian sneer ' ? ' And has not Colly still his lord and whore ? His butchers Henley , his free - masons Moore ? Does ...
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... Proud as Apollo on his forked hill Sat full - blown Bufo , puff'd by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long , 230 Horace and he went hand in hand in song . His library ( where busts of poets dead And a true Pindar stood ...
... Proud as Apollo on his forked hill Sat full - blown Bufo , puff'd by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long , 230 Horace and he went hand in hand in song . His library ( where busts of poets dead And a true Pindar stood ...
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... proud nor servile , be one poet's praise , That if he pleas'd he pleas'd by manly ways ; That flatt'ry , ev'n to kings , he held a shame , And thought a lie in verse or prose the same ; That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long , But ...
... proud nor servile , be one poet's praise , That if he pleas'd he pleas'd by manly ways ; That flatt'ry , ev'n to kings , he held a shame , And thought a lie in verse or prose the same ; That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long , But ...
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