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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... DEATH OF MR . POPE . ESSAY ON MAN . MORAL ESSAYS . SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED . SATIRES OF DR . JOHN DONNE , VERSIFIED . EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES . A 2 3817 1819 21906 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS.
... DEATH OF MR . POPE . ESSAY ON MAN . MORAL ESSAYS . SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED . SATIRES OF DR . JOHN DONNE , VERSIFIED . EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES . A 2 3817 1819 21906 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS.
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... MORAL ESSAYS . EPIS . I. Of the knowledge and characters of Men , EPIS . II . Of the characters of Women , EPIS . III . Of the use of Riches , EPIS . IV . Of the use of Riches , · EPIS . V. To Mr. Addison , occasioned by his Dialogues ...
... MORAL ESSAYS . EPIS . I. Of the knowledge and characters of Men , EPIS . II . Of the characters of Women , EPIS . III . Of the use of Riches , EPIS . IV . Of the use of Riches , · EPIS . V. To Mr. Addison , occasioned by his Dialogues ...
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... moral shall ye understond , From Schoole - boy's Tale of fayre Irelond : Which to the Fennes hath him betake , To filch the gray Ducke fro the Lake . Right then , there passen by the way His Aunt , and eke her Daughters tway . Ducke in ...
... moral shall ye understond , From Schoole - boy's Tale of fayre Irelond : Which to the Fennes hath him betake , To filch the gray Ducke fro the Lake . Right then , there passen by the way His Aunt , and eke her Daughters tway . Ducke in ...
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... Morals the Court - Poet blush'd to sing ; ' Twas all his praise to say , " the oddest thing . " Proud for a jest obscene , a Patron's nod , To martyr Virtue , or blaspheme his God . Ill - fated DRYDEN ! who unmov'd can see 425 430 Th ...
... Morals the Court - Poet blush'd to sing ; ' Twas all his praise to say , " the oddest thing . " Proud for a jest obscene , a Patron's nod , To martyr Virtue , or blaspheme his God . Ill - fated DRYDEN ! who unmov'd can see 425 430 Th ...
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... moral transport o'er the heart . Fantastic Wit shoots momentary fires , And , like a meteor , while we gaze expires : Wit kindled by the sulph'rous breath of Vice , 485 Like the blue lightning , while it shines destroys : 490 But Genius ...
... moral transport o'er the heart . Fantastic Wit shoots momentary fires , And , like a meteor , while we gaze expires : Wit kindled by the sulph'rous breath of Vice , 485 Like the blue lightning , while it shines destroys : 490 But Genius ...
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