The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so long ) Is only this ... plains ; When the dull ox , why now he breaks the clod , Is now a victim , and now Egypt's god ; Then shall man's ...
... plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so long ) Is only this ... plains ; When the dull ox , why now he breaks the clod , Is now a victim , and now Egypt's god ; Then shall man's ...
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... No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use were finer optics giv'n , To 6 Epist . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
... No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use were finer optics giv'n , To 6 Epist . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
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Alexander Pope. Ask your own heart , and nothing is so plain ; ' Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain . 5. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft , familiar with her face ...
Alexander Pope. Ask your own heart , and nothing is so plain ; ' Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain . 5. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft , familiar with her face ...
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... plain ? - The birds of Heav'n shall vindicate their grain . Thine the full harvest of the golden year ? - Part pays , and justly , the deserving steer . The hog , that ploughs not , nor obeys thy call , Lives on the labours of this lord ...
... plain ? - The birds of Heav'n shall vindicate their grain . Thine the full harvest of the golden year ? - Part pays , and justly , the deserving steer . The hog , that ploughs not , nor obeys thy call , Lives on the labours of this lord ...
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... plain tradition that this all begun , Convey'd unbroken faith from sire to son ; The worker from the work distinct was known , And simple reason never sought but one . Ere wit oblique had broke that steady light , Man , like his Maker ...
... plain tradition that this all begun , Convey'd unbroken faith from sire to son ; The worker from the work distinct was known , And simple reason never sought but one . Ere wit oblique had broke that steady light , Man , like his Maker ...
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