The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Juvenile poemsJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... display their annual pride : 40 Happy the man , who strings his tuneful lyre , Where woods , and brooks , and breathing fields in- spire ! Thrice happy you ! and worthy best to dwell Amidst the rural joys you sing so well . 45 I in a ...
... display their annual pride : 40 Happy the man , who strings his tuneful lyre , Where woods , and brooks , and breathing fields in- spire ! Thrice happy you ! and worthy best to dwell Amidst the rural joys you sing so well . 45 I in a ...
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... displays , - Thyrfis , the Music of that murm'ring Spring , are manifestly imitations of -A Shepherd's Boy ( no better do bim call ) -Tityre , tu patulae recubans fub tegmine fagi . - Αδύ τι τὸ ψιθύρισμα κὶ ἀπίτυς , αἱπόλε , τήνα . Ρ ...
... displays , - Thyrfis , the Music of that murm'ring Spring , are manifestly imitations of -A Shepherd's Boy ( no better do bim call ) -Tityre , tu patulae recubans fub tegmine fagi . - Αδύ τι τὸ ψιθύρισμα κὶ ἀπίτυς , αἱπόλε , τήνα . Ρ ...
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... displays , B Hylas and Ægon fung their rural lays , This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent Love , And Delia's name and Doris fill'd the Grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your facred succour bring ; 5 Hylas and Ægon's rural lays I fing ...
... displays , B Hylas and Ægon fung their rural lays , This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent Love , And Delia's name and Doris fill'd the Grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your facred succour bring ; 5 Hylas and Ægon's rural lays I fing ...
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... display , And break upon thee in a flood of day ! No more the rifing † Sun shall gild the morn , Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn ; But loft , diffolv'd in thy superior rays , One tide of glory , one unclouded blaze 90 95 100 O ...
... display , And break upon thee in a flood of day ! No more the rifing † Sun shall gild the morn , Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn ; But loft , diffolv'd in thy superior rays , One tide of glory , one unclouded blaze 90 95 100 O ...
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... display , And part admit , and part exclude the day ; As fome coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges ... displays her purple dyes , 25 And ' midst the desart fruitful fields arise , That crown'd with tufted trees and ...
... display , And part admit , and part exclude the day ; As fome coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges ... displays her purple dyes , 25 And ' midst the desart fruitful fields arise , That crown'd with tufted trees and ...
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Page 148 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 81 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 165 - The Lock, obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest, So Heav'n decrees!
Page 138 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 156 - There she collects the force of female lungs, Sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues. A vial next she fills with fainting fears, Soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing' tears. The gnome rejoicing bears her gifts away, Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day. Sunk in Thalestris' arms the nymph he found, Her eyes dejected and her hair unbound.
Page 169 - Cold is that breast which warm'd the world before, And those love-darting eyes must roll no more. Thus, if Eternal Justice rules the ball, Thus...
Page 104 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 109 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found.
Page 170 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 107 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...