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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 215
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing, but a rage to live. 100 Turn then from wits ; and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought ; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that owns her faults but never mends, Because she's honest,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. Cries, "Ah! how charming if there's no such place!" Or who in sweet vicissitude appears, Of mirth and...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
....00 much quickness ever to lie taught; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that joy can give. And die of nothing but a rage to live. 100 Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to Lave common thought ; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that owns her faults but never mends, Because she's honest,...
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1866 - 328 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought ; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that owns her faults but never mends, Because she's honest,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...live. Turn then from wits! and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends, Because she's honest,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J ...

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought ; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. 100 Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her, that...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...With too much Quickness ever to be taught; With too much Thinking to have common Thought: You purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. 100 Turn then from Wits; and look on Simo's Mate, No Ass so meek, no Ass so obstinate. Or her, that...
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A compendious grammar and philological hand-book of the English language

John Stuart Colquhoun - English language - 1871 - 264 pages
...after nouns and adjectives ; as, He is able to work ; All of us have power to do good. " Yon purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing, but a rage to live." — POPE. " To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight." — MILTON....
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