The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1924 - 505 pages |
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... bears sufficient testimony . From out of the sphere of the middle classes a reaction had been preparing itself . Its direction was towards that close obedience But an to the divine law as a practical , if possible a literal , fingerpost ...
... bears sufficient testimony . From out of the sphere of the middle classes a reaction had been preparing itself . Its direction was towards that close obedience But an to the divine law as a practical , if possible a literal , fingerpost ...
Page xxx
... bear upon his susceptible nature . It was very well for Walsh to have admonished him , as an author of sixteen , to take occasion ( in his Fourth Pastoral ) ' to shew the difference between Poets ' mistresses and other men's1 ; ' but ...
... bear upon his susceptible nature . It was very well for Walsh to have admonished him , as an author of sixteen , to take occasion ( in his Fourth Pastoral ) ' to shew the difference between Poets ' mistresses and other men's1 ; ' but ...
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... bears . ] An allusion to the Royal Oak , in which Charles II . had been hid from the pursuit after the battle of Worcester . P. The Thistle springs , to which the Lily yields , ] alludes to the device of the Scots mon- archs , the ...
... bears . ] An allusion to the Royal Oak , in which Charles II . had been hid from the pursuit after the battle of Worcester . P. The Thistle springs , to which the Lily yields , ] alludes to the device of the Scots mon- archs , the ...
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... bear , And list'ning wolves grow milder as they hear . So the verses were originally written . But the author , young as he was , soon found the absurd- ity which Spenser himself overlooked , of intro- ducing wolves into England . P ...
... bear , And list'ning wolves grow milder as they hear . So the verses were originally written . But the author , young as he was , soon found the absurd- ity which Spenser himself overlooked , of intro- ducing wolves into England . P ...
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... bear my sighs away ! To Delia's ear , the tender notes convey . As some sad Turtle his lost love deplores , And with deep murmurs fills the sounding shores ; Thus , far from Delia , to the winds I mourn , Alike unheard , unpity'd , and ...
... bear my sighs away ! To Delia's ear , the tender notes convey . As some sad Turtle his lost love deplores , And with deep murmurs fills the sounding shores ; Thus , far from Delia , to the winds I mourn , Alike unheard , unpity'd , and ...
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