The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page xi
... breast which warm'd the world before , And those love - darting eyes must roll no more , The conclusion of this elegy is irresistibly affecting . So peaceful rests , without a stone , a name Which once had beauty , titles , wealth and ...
... breast which warm'd the world before , And those love - darting eyes must roll no more , The conclusion of this elegy is irresistibly affecting . So peaceful rests , without a stone , a name Which once had beauty , titles , wealth and ...
Page xxviii
... breast at last put a period to his life , at the age of fifty - six , on the 30th of May , 1744 , at his house at Twick- enham , where he was interred in the same grave with his father and mother . Mr. Pope's behaviour in his last ...
... breast at last put a period to his life , at the age of fifty - six , on the 30th of May , 1744 , at his house at Twick- enham , where he was interred in the same grave with his father and mother . Mr. Pope's behaviour in his last ...
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... breast : Man never is but always to be blest . The soul , ( uneasy and confin'd ) from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; His soul ...
... breast : Man never is but always to be blest . The soul , ( uneasy and confin'd ) from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; His soul ...
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... breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ; The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the whole . On life's vast ocean diversely we sail , Reason the card , but passion is the gale ; Nor ...
... breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ; The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the whole . On life's vast ocean diversely we sail , Reason the card , but passion is the gale ; Nor ...
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... breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high , Shall gravitation cease if you go by ? Or some old temple , nodding to its fall , For Chartres ' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world ( so fitted for the knave 30 ...
... breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high , Shall gravitation cease if you go by ? Or some old temple , nodding to its fall , For Chartres ' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world ( so fitted for the knave 30 ...
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