The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page xi
... once had beauty , titles , wealth and fame ; How lov'd , how 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 ...
... once had beauty , titles , wealth and fame ; How lov'd , how 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 ...
Page xx
... Pope on the topic of changing his religion , and once humourously offered him twenty pounds for that purpose . Mr. Pope's answer to this , Lord Orrery has obliged the world with by preserving it in the life of Swift XX LIFE OF POPE .
... Pope on the topic of changing his religion , and once humourously offered him twenty pounds for that purpose . Mr. Pope's answer to this , Lord Orrery has obliged the world with by preserving it in the life of Swift XX LIFE OF POPE .
Page 4
... once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . To be content's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall ...
... once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . To be content's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall ...
Page 21
... once extend the interest and the love ; With choice we fix , with sympathy we burn ; Each virtue in each passion takes its turn ; And still new needs , new , helps , new habits , rise , That graft benevolence on charities . Still as one ...
... once extend the interest and the love ; With choice we fix , with sympathy we burn ; Each virtue in each passion takes its turn ; And still new needs , new , helps , new habits , rise , That graft benevolence on charities . Still as one ...
Page 26
... once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul , And one regards itself , and one the whole . Thus God and nature link'd the general frame , And bade self - love and social be the same . of the Nature and State ...
... once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul , And one regards itself , and one the whole . Thus God and nature link'd the general frame , And bade self - love and social be the same . of the Nature and State ...
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