The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... kings we lose the conquests gain'd before , By vain ambition still to make them more : Each might his several province well command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . First follow Nature , and your judgment frame By her OF ...
... kings we lose the conquests gain'd before , By vain ambition still to make them more : Each might his several province well command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . First follow Nature , and your judgment frame By her OF ...
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... kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept , ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom , and compell'd by need ; And have at least their precedent to plead ; The critic ...
... kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept , ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom , and compell'd by need ; And have at least their precedent to plead ; The critic ...
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... kings . Let us ( since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot , Or garden ...
... kings . Let us ( since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot , Or garden ...
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... kings presumption , and to crowds belief : That virtue's ends from vanity can raise , Which seeks no interest , no ... king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely bless'd , the poet in his muse . See some strange comfort ...
... kings presumption , and to crowds belief : That virtue's ends from vanity can raise , Which seeks no interest , no ... king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely bless'd , the poet in his muse . See some strange comfort ...
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... king unknown , Till common interest plac'd the sway in one . ' Twas virtue only ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms ) The same which in a sire the sons obey'd , A prince the father of a people made . VOL . II ...
... king unknown , Till common interest plac'd the sway in one . ' Twas virtue only ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms ) The same which in a sire the sons obey'd , A prince the father of a people made . VOL . II ...
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