The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... laws a prey , And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies , dispeopled air and floods , The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste , they storm'd the dens and caves ( For wiser brutes were ...
... laws a prey , And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies , dispeopled air and floods , The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste , they storm'd the dens and caves ( For wiser brutes were ...
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... laws which first herself ordain'd . Hear how learn'd Greece her useful rules in- dites , When to repress , and when indulge our flights : High on Parnassus ' top her sons she show'd , And pointed out those arduous paths they trod ; Held ...
... laws which first herself ordain'd . Hear how learn'd Greece her useful rules in- dites , When to repress , and when indulge our flights : High on Parnassus ' top her sons she show'd , And pointed out those arduous paths they trod ; Held ...
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... law , And but from nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t ' examine every part he came , Nature and Homer were , he found , the same ... laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or , if you must offend 52 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... law , And but from nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t ' examine every part he came , Nature and Homer were , he found , the same ... laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or , if you must offend 52 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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... laws in force . I know there are , to whose presumptuous thoughts Those freer beauties , ev'n in them , seem faults . Some figures monstrous and mis - shap'd appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to ...
... laws in force . I know there are , to whose presumptuous thoughts Those freer beauties , ev'n in them , seem faults . Some figures monstrous and mis - shap'd appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to ...
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... and proud of savage liberty , Receiv'd his laws , and stood convinc'd ' twas fit Who conquer'd nature should preside o'er wit . Horace still charms with graceful negligence , And without method 66 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... and proud of savage liberty , Receiv'd his laws , and stood convinc'd ' twas fit Who conquer'd nature should preside o'er wit . Horace still charms with graceful negligence , And without method 66 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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