The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... charms , and make her more belov'd : But following wits from that intention stray'd : Who could not win the mistress woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So ...
... charms , and make her more belov'd : But following wits from that intention stray'd : Who could not win the mistress woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So ...
Page 12
... charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That shunning faults one quiet tenor keep , We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep . In wit , as nature , what affects our hearts Is ...
... charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That shunning faults one quiet tenor keep , We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep . In wit , as nature , what affects our hearts Is ...
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... charms con- spire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear ; Not mend their minds , as some to church repair , Not for the doctrine but the music there . These equal syllables alone ...
... charms con- spire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear ; Not mend their minds , as some to church repair , Not for the doctrine but the music there . These equal syllables alone ...
Page 27
... charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into sense ; Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way . He who , supreme in judgment as in wit , Might boldly censure as he boldly writ ...
... charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into sense ; Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way . He who , supreme in judgment as in wit , Might boldly censure as he boldly writ ...
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... charms , but charm not all alike ; On different senses different objects strike ; Hence different passions more or less inflame , As strong or weak the organs of the frame ; And hence one master - passion in the breast , Like Aaron's ...
... charms , but charm not all alike ; On different senses different objects strike ; Hence different passions more or less inflame , As strong or weak the organs of the frame ; And hence one master - passion in the breast , Like Aaron's ...
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