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" Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. "
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 35
by Thomas Brown - 1824
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 18

1804 - 452 pages
...probable that Pope noted this thought; for the following lines seem a beautiful heightening of the idea: " Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid." Then he adds, " Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole."...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief; Lh, more than share it, give me all thy srri'f. leaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover or some captive maW ; 'hey live, they speak, tht-y breathe what love inVarm from the soul, and faithful to its fires,...
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The maiden wife or, The heiress of De Courcey

Ann Mary Hamilton - 1813 - 830 pages
...all Booksellers. * • . . " .. 'i . ••••'••. * '.••,•-. BE CO UM € F, CHAPTER I. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid. Some banish'd lover, or 'some captive maid." POPE. WHEN Clara called ou Mr. Sauritzy's agent, she was agreeably surprised to" find, that, by the...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...can do. Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief; An, more than share it, give me all thy grief. that sliunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantrcss, oft, the ; [spires, Tkeylive, they speak, they breathe what love intt'«nn from the soul, and faithful to its...
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Memoirs of Her Late Majesty Caroline, Queen of Great Britain: Embracing ...

Robert Huish - Queens - 1821 - 734 pages
...of an acquaintance being renewed or continued, which might end in the degradation of the family; but Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. A correspondence was discovered by one of the arguses of the court — a plan was formed for intercepting...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...can do. Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief; Ah, more than share it, give me all thy grief. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid ; [spires, They live, they speak, they breathe what love inWarm from the soul, and faithful to its...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 4

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...that Pope had noted this thought, for the following lines seem a beautiful heightening of the idea : " Heaven first taught letters, for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid." Then he adds, they " Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1823 - 418 pages
...faded eyes pursue ; To read and weep is all they now can do. Eloisa to Ahelard, I. 47. Again, Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid. Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid : Chap. 16.] SENTIMENTS. 371 They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the...
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Curiosities of literature. (Repr. of the 7th ed.).

Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...Pope had noted this thought, for the following lines seem a beautiful .heightening of the idea : " Heaven first taught letters, for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid." Then he adds, they " Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief; Ah, more than share it, give me all thy grief. 50 Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid ; NOTES. Ver. 41. Yet write,'] This is taken from the Latin letters that passed betwixt Eloisa and...
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