The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... fires True genius kindles , and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converse , and live with ease ; Should such a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no rival near ...
... fires True genius kindles , and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converse , and live with ease ; Should such a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no rival near ...
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... fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such ; Say here he ...
... fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such ; Say here he ...
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... fires here rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas ! what wonder ! man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves by ...
... fires here rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas ! what wonder ! man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves by ...
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... fire , control the flood , Draw forth the monsters of the ' abyss profound , Or fetch the ' aƫrial eagle to the ground ; Till drooping , sickening , dying , they began Whom they rever'd as God to mourn as man : Then , looking up from ...
... fire , control the flood , Draw forth the monsters of the ' abyss profound , Or fetch the ' aƫrial eagle to the ground ; Till drooping , sickening , dying , they began Whom they rever'd as God to mourn as man : Then , looking up from ...
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... fires ? On air or sea new motions be imprest , 1 O blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy 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 ...
... fires ? On air or sea new motions be imprest , 1 O blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy 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 ...
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