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" The Lock, obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest, So Heav'n decrees! "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Juvenile poems - Page 165
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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The Rape of the Lock

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1902 - 90 pages
...his Pain But see how oft Ambitious Aims are cross'd, And Chiefs contend 'till all the Prize is lost ! The Lock, obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain : 1 10 With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest, So Heav'n decrees ! with...
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The Principles and Progress of English Poetry

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 772 pages
...pain. But see how oft' ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost! 295 The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees ! with heav'n...
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The Principles and Progress of English Poetry

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 726 pages
...pain. But see how oft' ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost ! 295 The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain : With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees ! with heav'n...
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The Principles and Progress of English Poetry

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1905 - 726 pages
...pain. But see how oft' ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost ! 295 The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain : With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees ! with heav'n...
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The Rape of the Lock: And Other Poems

Alexander Pope - Catholics - 1906 - 198 pages
...pain. But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost ! The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: no With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees ! with...
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Narrative and Lyric Poems: For Students

Samuel Swayze Seward - American poetry - 1909 - 538 pages
...his pain. But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost ! The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain. With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees! with heav'n...
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Pageants and Pageantry, Volume 10

Esther Willard Bates - Pageants - 1912 - 336 pages
...pain. But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost ! The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain : With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees ! with heav'n...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...his pain. Bnt see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost! 5 85 85 sought, bnt sought in vain: no With such a prize no moHal must be blest. So Heav*n decrees I with Heav'n...
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Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1916 - 160 pages
...pain. But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost ! The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: no With such a prize no mortal must be blest, Some thought it mounted to...
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An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English ...

Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...his pain. But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost! The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain : With such a prize, no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees ! with heav'n...
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