The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... half their charms we owe ; Fine by defect , and delicately weak , Their happy spots the nice admirer take . ' Twas thus Calypso once each heart alarm'd , 6 Awed without virtue , without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as ...
... half their charms we owe ; Fine by defect , and delicately weak , Their happy spots the nice admirer take . ' Twas thus Calypso once each heart alarm'd , 6 Awed without virtue , without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as ...
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... half your parents ' simple prayer ; And gave you beauty , but denied the pelf 285 That buys your sex a tyrant o'er itself . The generous god , who wit and gold refines , And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , 290 Kept dross for ...
... half your parents ' simple prayer ; And gave you beauty , but denied the pelf 285 That buys your sex a tyrant o'er itself . The generous god , who wit and gold refines , And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , 290 Kept dross for ...
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... half of the legacy , while Mallet took the whole , and never wrote a line of the Life . BLENHEIM . Out of the record of Sarah's feuds and ebullitions of temper , some amusing incidents arise . With her grandson , Charles , second son of ...
... half of the legacy , while Mallet took the whole , and never wrote a line of the Life . BLENHEIM . Out of the record of Sarah's feuds and ebullitions of temper , some amusing incidents arise . With her grandson , Charles , second son of ...
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... half - a - crown . See Britain sunk in lucre's sordid charms , • 135 140 And France revenged on Anne's and Edward's arms ! " ' Twas no court - badge , great scrivener , fired thy brain , Nor lordly luxury , nor city gain : 146 No ...
... half - a - crown . See Britain sunk in lucre's sordid charms , • 135 140 And France revenged on Anne's and Edward's arms ! " ' Twas no court - badge , great scrivener , fired thy brain , Nor lordly luxury , nor city gain : 146 No ...
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... half - hung , The floors of plaster , and the walls of dung , 300 On once a flock - bed , but repair'd with straw , With tape - tied curtains never meant to draw , The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove ...
... half - hung , The floors of plaster , and the walls of dung , 300 On once a flock - bed , but repair'd with straw , With tape - tied curtains never meant to draw , The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove ...
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