The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void , Where , one step broken , the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike ...
... thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void , Where , one step broken , the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike ...
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... thee . Submit - in this or any other sphere , Secure to be as bless'd as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in the natal or the mortal hour . All nature is but art unknown to thee ; All chance direction ...
... thee . Submit - in this or any other sphere , Secure to be as bless'd as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in the natal or the mortal hour . All nature is but art unknown to thee ; All chance direction ...
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... thee the lark ascends and sings ? — Joy tunes his voice , joy elevates his wings . Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? - Loves of his own and raptures swell the note . The bounding steed you pompously bestride , Shares with his ...
... thee the lark ascends and sings ? — Joy tunes his voice , joy elevates his wings . Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? - Loves of his own and raptures swell the note . The bounding steed you pompously bestride , Shares with his ...
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... thee . Ask of the learn'd the way ? the learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve , and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these ; Some sunk to beasts , find ...
... thee . Ask of the learn'd the way ? the learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve , and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these ; Some sunk to beasts , find ...
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... thee to the grave ? Tell me , if virtue made the son expire , Why full of days and honour lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long ...
... thee to the grave ? Tell me , if virtue made the son expire , Why full of days and honour lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long ...
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