The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme , The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam ? Of smell , the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green ! Of ...
... race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme , The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam ? Of smell , the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green ! Of ...
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... race . Thus beast and bird their common charge attend , The mothers nurse it , and the sires defend ; The young dismiss'd to wander earth or air , There stops the instinct , and there ends the care ; The link dissolves , each seeks a ...
... race . Thus beast and bird their common charge attend , The mothers nurse it , and the sires defend ; The young dismiss'd to wander earth or air , There stops the instinct , and there ends the care ; The link dissolves , each seeks a ...
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... ; That thou mayst be by kings , or whores of kings . Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race , In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your fathers ' worth if your's you rate 32 Epist . IV . ESSAY ON MAN .
... ; That thou mayst be by kings , or whores of kings . Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race , In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your fathers ' worth if your's you rate 32 Epist . IV . ESSAY ON MAN .
Page 36
... straight succeeds , Another still , and still another spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbour , first it will embrace ; His country next , and next all human race ; Wide and more wide , the ' o'erflowings of the 36 Epist . IV . ESSAY ON MAN .
... straight succeeds , Another still , and still another spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbour , first it will embrace ; His country next , and next all human race ; Wide and more wide , the ' o'erflowings of the 36 Epist . IV . ESSAY ON MAN .
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... race , But thou , false guardian of a charge too good , Thou , mean deserter of thy brother's blood ! See on these ruby lips the trembling breath , These cheeks now fading at the blast of death ; Cold is that breast which warm'd the ...
... race , But thou , false guardian of a charge too good , Thou , mean deserter of thy brother's blood ! See on these ruby lips the trembling breath , These cheeks now fading at the blast of death ; Cold is that breast which warm'd the ...
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