The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J. Woodward, 1830 - 442 pages |
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... So Jove decrees , almighty lord of all ! Jove , at whose nod whole empires ... such a monarch as can choose the best . See ! what a blaze from hostile ... their way . His son was first to pass the lofty mound , 111 The generous Thrasymed ...
... So Jove decrees , almighty lord of all ! Jove , at whose nod whole empires ... such a monarch as can choose the best . See ! what a blaze from hostile ... their way . His son was first to pass the lofty mound , 111 The generous Thrasymed ...
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... their thirst allay , Then from the royal tent they take their way ; Wise ... till he ceased the song . Unseen the Grecian embassy proceeds To his high ... Such as himself will choose ; who yield to none , Or yield to Helen's heavenly ...
... their thirst allay , Then from the royal tent they take their way ; Wise ... till he ceased the song . Unseen the Grecian embassy proceeds To his high ... Such as himself will choose ; who yield to none , Or yield to Helen's heavenly ...
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... so ( the dame replied , ) I haste to go To sacred Ocean and the floods below : E'en now our solemn hecatombs attend , And heaven is feasting , on the world's green end , With righteous Ethiops ( uncorrupted train ! ) Far on the ...
... so ( the dame replied , ) I haste to go To sacred Ocean and the floods below : E'en now our solemn hecatombs attend , And heaven is feasting , on the world's green end , With righteous Ethiops ( uncorrupted train ! ) Far on the ...
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... better days ! ) Behold his vigour in this active race , Achilles only boasts a swifter pace : For who can match Achilles ? He who can , Must yet be more than hero , more than man . The effect succeeds the speech , Pelides cries , Thy ...
... better days ! ) Behold his vigour in this active race , Achilles only boasts a swifter pace : For who can match Achilles ? He who can , Must yet be more than hero , more than man . The effect succeeds the speech , Pelides cries , Thy ...
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Page 125 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 112 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 125 - And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Page 102 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Page 103 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 112 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
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Page 66 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
Page 103 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!