The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page xix
... tell you a secret ? I did so at fourteen years old , for I loved reading , and my father " had no other books . There was a collection of " all that had been written on both sides in the " reign of King James II . I warmed my head with ...
... tell you a secret ? I did so at fourteen years old , for I loved reading , and my father " had no other books . There was a collection of " all that had been written on both sides in the " reign of King James II . I warmed my head with ...
Page xx
... tell you my political and religious sen- " timents in a few words ; in my politics , I think " no farther than how to preserve my peace of " life in any government under which I live ; nor " in my religion , than to preserve the peace ...
... tell you my political and religious sen- " timents in a few words ; in my politics , I think " no farther than how to preserve my peace of " life in any government under which I live ; nor " in my religion , than to preserve the peace ...
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... tell why Heav'n has made us as we are : But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connexions , nice dependencies , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ; or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great ...
... tell why Heav'n has made us as we are : But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connexions , nice dependencies , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ; or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great ...
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... tell us we are fools ? Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend , A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! Or from a judge turn pleader , to persuade The choice we make , or justify it made ; Proud of an easy conquest all along , She ...
... tell us we are fools ? Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend , A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! Or from a judge turn pleader , to persuade The choice we make , or justify it made ; Proud of an easy conquest all along , She ...
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... Tell me , if virtue made the son expire , Why full of days and honour lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can be ) Lent Heav'n ...
... Tell me , if virtue made the son expire , Why full of days and honour lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can be ) Lent Heav'n ...
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