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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... blest with these inchanting lays , Which must be heav'nly when an Angel plays : But killing charms your lover's death contrive , Least heav'nly music should be heard alive . Orpheus could charm the trees , but thus a tree , Taught by ...
... blest with these inchanting lays , Which must be heav'nly when an Angel plays : But killing charms your lover's death contrive , Least heav'nly music should be heard alive . Orpheus could charm the trees , but thus a tree , Taught by ...
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... BOILEAU there Supported Genius with a Sage's care : Him with her love propitious Satire blest , And breath'd her airs divine into his breast : 436 440 445 Fancy and Sense to form his line conspire , And Part III . 43 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... BOILEAU there Supported Genius with a Sage's care : Him with her love propitious Satire blest , And breath'd her airs divine into his breast : 436 440 445 Fancy and Sense to form his line conspire , And Part III . 43 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... blest to - day is as completely so , 75 As who began a thousand years ago . III . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : VARIATIONS . In the former Editions , ver . 64 ...
... blest to - day is as completely so , 75 As who began a thousand years ago . III . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : VARIATIONS . In the former Editions , ver . 64 ...
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... blest . The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; His soul , proud Science never taught to stray Far ...
... blest . The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; His soul , proud Science never taught to stray Far ...
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... blest abodes , 125 Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Aspiring to be Angels , Men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . 130 V. Ask for ...
... blest abodes , 125 Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Aspiring to be Angels , Men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . 130 V. Ask for ...
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