The Beauties of PopeG. Kearsley, 1783 - 278 pages |
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Page iii
... , he took a fingular pleasure in compofing rhymes , and appeared animated with the Vis Poetica from his firft infancy . Ogilby's . Homer a 2 * Biograph . Britan u . 5. folio edit . iv LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . M Homers MONTAQFOC.
... , he took a fingular pleasure in compofing rhymes , and appeared animated with the Vis Poetica from his firft infancy . Ogilby's . Homer a 2 * Biograph . Britan u . 5. folio edit . iv LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . M Homers MONTAQFOC.
Page xix
... uncommon in the world , that to want money is to want every thing . " mos Next to the pleasure of contemplating his poffeffions , feems to be that of enumerating the men 66 66 " " true , men of high rank LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . xix.
... uncommon in the world , that to want money is to want every thing . " mos Next to the pleasure of contemplating his poffeffions , feems to be that of enumerating the men 66 66 " " true , men of high rank LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . xix.
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... pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But , in fu fuch lays as neither te as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That , fhunning faults , one quiet tenor keep ; We cannot blame indeed - but we may fleep . In Wit , as ...
... pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But , in fu fuch lays as neither te as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That , fhunning faults , one quiet tenor keep ; We cannot blame indeed - but we may fleep . In Wit , as ...
Page 50
... pleasure Heav'n itself surveys ; A brave man ftruggling in the storms of fate , And greatly falling with a falling state . While Cato gives his little Senate laws , What bofom beats not in his Country's caufe ? Who fees him act , but ...
... pleasure Heav'n itself surveys ; A brave man ftruggling in the storms of fate , And greatly falling with a falling state . While Cato gives his little Senate laws , What bofom beats not in his Country's caufe ? Who fees him act , but ...
Page 57
... pleasures , and folicit new ; Now turn'd to heav'n , I weep my paft offence ; Now think of thee , and curfe my innocence . Of all affliction taught a lover yet , " Tis fure the hardest science to forget ! How fhall I lofe the fin , yet ...
... pleasures , and folicit new ; Now turn'd to heav'n , I weep my paft offence ; Now think of thee , and curfe my innocence . Of all affliction taught a lover yet , " Tis fure the hardest science to forget ! How fhall I lofe the fin , yet ...
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