The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem, Volume 4A. Valpy, 1835 |
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... sigh to rise , no tear had power to flow , Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of wo : 126 130 But when its way the impetuous passion found , I rend my tresses , and my breast I wound ; I rave , then weep ; I curse , and then complain ; Now ...
... sigh to rise , no tear had power to flow , Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of wo : 126 130 But when its way the impetuous passion found , I rend my tresses , and my breast I wound ; I rave , then weep ; I curse , and then complain ; Now ...
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... sighs , no numbers move One savage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my prayers , my sighs , my numbers bear ; The flying winds have lost them all in air ! Or when , alas ! shall more auspicious gales To these fond eyes ...
... sighs , no numbers move One savage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my prayers , my sighs , my numbers bear ; The flying winds have lost them all in air ! Or when , alas ! shall more auspicious gales To these fond eyes ...
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... sighs , When the fair consort of her son replies : - ' Since you a servant's ravish'd form bemoan , And kindly sigh for sorrows not your own , Let me , if tears and grief permit , relate A nearer wo , a sister's stranger fate . No nymph ...
... sighs , When the fair consort of her son replies : - ' Since you a servant's ravish'd form bemoan , And kindly sigh for sorrows not your own , Let me , if tears and grief permit , relate A nearer wo , a sister's stranger fate . No nymph ...
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... sighs com- plains : - If to the wretched any faith be given , 71 75 I swear , by all the unpitying powers of heaven , No wilful crime this heavy vengeance bred ; In mutual innocence our lives we led : If this be false , let these new ...
... sighs com- plains : - If to the wretched any faith be given , 71 75 I swear , by all the unpitying powers of heaven , No wilful crime this heavy vengeance bred ; In mutual innocence our lives we led : If this be false , let these new ...
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... sigh'd : she found it vain to trust The faithless column and the crumbling bust : 20 Huge moles , whose shadow stretch'd from shore to shore , 25 Their ruins perish'd , and their place no more ! Convinced , she now contracts her vast ...
... sigh'd : she found it vain to trust The faithless column and the crumbling bust : 20 Huge moles , whose shadow stretch'd from shore to shore , 25 Their ruins perish'd , and their place no more ! Convinced , she now contracts her vast ...
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Addison Æsop Ambrose Philips bard beauty bless'd bliss bosom breast charms countess of Suffolk court cried crown'd dame dear delight divine Dryope Dunciad e'er ease envy EPISTLE Ev'n eyes fair fame fate fire flame flowery folly fool genius gentle grace grave Gulliver hand hear heart Heaven Homer honest honor Houyhnhnm husband Iliad joys kind KIT-CAT CLUB lady learn'd LEMUEL GULLIVER live lord lyre mourn Muse ne'er night numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pass'd passion Phaon play pleased pleasure poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride PROLOGUE quoth rage rise Sappho satire scene scorn shade shine Siege of Damascus sigh sing smile soft song soul spouse squire sung sweet Swift tears tell tender thee thine thou thought Tom D'Urfey translation tree Twas verse Vertumnus vex'd virgin virtue Warton wife wise youth