The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page iii
... honour's cause , While yet in Britain honour had applause ) Each parent sprang - What fortune pray ? -their own ; And better got than Bestia's from the throne . Born to no pride , inheriting no strife , Nor marrying discord in a noble ...
... honour's cause , While yet in Britain honour had applause ) Each parent sprang - What fortune pray ? -their own ; And better got than Bestia's from the throne . Born to no pride , inheriting no strife , Nor marrying discord in a noble ...
Page vii
... honour to our age and country , his religion ren- dering him incapable of a place , which the Lord Treasurer Oxford used to express his concern for , but without offering him a pension , as the Earl of Halifax and Mr. Secretary Craggs ...
... honour to our age and country , his religion ren- dering him incapable of a place , which the Lord Treasurer Oxford used to express his concern for , but without offering him a pension , as the Earl of Halifax and Mr. Secretary Craggs ...
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... honour to deny it . The uncle finding that she would make no efforts to dis- engage her affection , after a little time forced her -abroad , where she was received with a ceremony due to her quality , but restricted from the conver ...
... honour to deny it . The uncle finding that she would make no efforts to dis- engage her affection , after a little time forced her -abroad , where she was received with a ceremony due to her quality , but restricted from the conver ...
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... honoured 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 ! No poem of our author's more deservedly ob- tained him reputation than his ...
... honoured 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 ! No poem of our author's more deservedly ob- tained him reputation than his ...
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... Honours - Nobility - Greatness - Fame - Superior talents , with pictures of human infelicity in men pos- sessed of them all . - 7 . That virtue only constitutes a happiness , whose object is universal , and whose pros- pect eternal ...
... Honours - Nobility - Greatness - Fame - Superior talents , with pictures of human infelicity in men pos- sessed of them all . - 7 . That virtue only constitutes a happiness , whose object is universal , and whose pros- pect eternal ...
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