The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Volume 2S.A. Bascom, 1819 |
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... Virtue , is generally perverted , ver . 41. And thus becomes the Occasion of the greatest Follies , Vices , and Miseries , ver . 61 . It is the work of Satire to rectify this Passion , to reduce it to its proper Channel , and to convert ...
... Virtue , is generally perverted , ver . 41. And thus becomes the Occasion of the greatest Follies , Vices , and Miseries , ver . 61 . It is the work of Satire to rectify this Passion , to reduce it to its proper Channel , and to convert ...
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... Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You visit oft his awful Page with Care , 10 15 20 And view that bright assemblage treasur'd there ; You trace the chain that links his deep design , And pour new ...
... Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You visit oft his awful Page with Care , 10 15 20 And view that bright assemblage treasur'd there ; You trace the chain that links his deep design , And pour new ...
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... Virtues which they fed before . 40 45 50 55 60 And sure , the deadliest Foe to Virtue's flame , 30 Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... Virtues which they fed before . 40 45 50 55 60 And sure , the deadliest Foe to Virtue's flame , 30 Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... Virtue , but his Pride . Hence chaste Lucretia's Innocence betray'd Fell by that honour which was meant its aid . Thus Virtue sinks beneath unnumber'd woes , When Passions , born her friends , revolt her foes . IMITATIONS . Ver . 80. To ...
... Virtue , but his Pride . Hence chaste Lucretia's Innocence betray'd Fell by that honour which was meant its aid . Thus Virtue sinks beneath unnumber'd woes , When Passions , born her friends , revolt her foes . IMITATIONS . Ver . 80. To ...
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... Virtue's awful head . Nor boasts the Muse a vain imagin'd Pow'r , Tho ' oft she mourn those ills she cannot cure . The Worthy court her , and the Worthless fear ; Who shun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the Vain ...
... Virtue's awful head . Nor boasts the Muse a vain imagin'd Pow'r , Tho ' oft she mourn those ills she cannot cure . The Worthy court her , and the Worthless fear ; Who shun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the Vain ...
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