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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 59
by Alexander Pope - 1854
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tossed, Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and...shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ? "The man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold...
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The Lion [ed. by R. Carlile]., Volume 4

1829 - 842 pages
...preference to the pure waters of the limpid stream. " Not to the skies in useless columns toss'd, Nor in proud falls magnificently lost ; But clear and...plain. Health to the sick, and solace to the swain." Again and again, I repeat — living, I maintain, dying, I shall leave to the world, as the most assured...
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Lion, Volume 4

1829 - 624 pages
...skies in useless columns toss',l, Nor in proud falls magnificently lost; But clear and artless, pourjng through the plain, Health to the sick, and solace to the swain." Again and again, I repeat—living, I maintain, dying, I shall leave to the world, as the most assured...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...sultry brow 7 From the dry rock who bade the waters flow 7 Not to the skies in useless columns tosg'd, m m m m 7 260 Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? 'The Man of Ross,' each lisping babe replies....
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...sultry brow? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow? Not to the skies in useless columns tossed, rd, how many things are there Who taught the heaven-directed ppire to rise? ' The Man of Ross/ each lisping babe replies. Behold...
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Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and ...

Lindley Murray - Children's poetry - 1831 - 178 pages
...sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost, Or in proud falls magnificently lost ; But. clear...plain, Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. 2. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught...
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Introduction to the English Reader, Or A Selection of Pieces: In Prose and ...

Lindley Murray - 1831 - 180 pages
...snltry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost, Or in proud falls magnificently lost ; But clear and...plain, Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. 2. Whose cau^e'way parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the wea'ry traveller repose ? Who taught...
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Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and ...

Lindley Murray - Readers, English - 1831 - 182 pages
...sultry brow ? From the dry rock who hade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost, ^ Or in proud falls magnificently lost; But. clear and...through the plain, Health to the sick, and solace to tho swain. 2. Whoso causeway parts the vale with shady rowsF Whose seats the weary travelier repose...
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Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little ..., Volume 2

Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1832 - 232 pages
...and so unlike the pompous charity of the common world, ' Not to the skiea in useless columns toBt, Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and...plain, Health to the sick and solace to the swain.' " You are the man of my mind, and to you I will speak my sorrows, although my parched lips almost refuse...
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volume 1

1833 - 814 pages
...lines, — From the dry rock, who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies, in useless columns tost, Or in proud falls magnificently lost ; But clear and...plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. The next work noticed by Pope is a causeway, which was constructed through the exertions of Mr. Kyrle,...
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