The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page 49
... leaves the fair at large , Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins , Be stopp'd in vials , or transfix'd with pins ; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie , Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye : Gums and pomatums shall ...
... leaves the fair at large , Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins , Be stopp'd in vials , or transfix'd with pins ; Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie , Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye : Gums and pomatums shall ...
Page 82
... leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is ...
... leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is ...
Page 83
... leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they : Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display , And those ...
... leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they : Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display , And those ...
Page 89
... leaves ; and where they most abound , Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found . False eloquence , like the prismatic glass , Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey , All glares alike without ...
... leaves ; and where they most abound , Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found . False eloquence , like the prismatic glass , Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey , All glares alike without ...
Page 102
... leaf and grain , Some unmark'd fibre , or some varying vein . Shall only man be taken in the gross ? Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss . That each from other differs , first confess , Next , that he varies from himself no less ...
... leaf and grain , Some unmark'd fibre , or some varying vein . Shall only man be taken in the gross ? Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss . That each from other differs , first confess , Next , that he varies from himself no less ...
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