The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... praise , With Waller's strains , or Granville's moving lays ! A milk - white bull shall at your altars stand , That threats a fight , and spurns the rising sand . DAPHNIS . O Love ! for Sylvia let me gain the prize , And make my tongue ...
... praise , With Waller's strains , or Granville's moving lays ! A milk - white bull shall at your altars stand , That threats a fight , and spurns the rising sand . DAPHNIS . O Love ! for Sylvia let me gain the prize , And make my tongue ...
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... praise ! Your praise the birds shall chant in every grove , And winds shall waft it to the powers above . But would you sing , and rival Orpheus strain , The wondering forests soon should dance again , The moving mountains hear the ...
... praise ! Your praise the birds shall chant in every grove , And winds shall waft it to the powers above . But would you sing , and rival Orpheus strain , The wondering forests soon should dance again , The moving mountains hear the ...
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... praise ! THYRSIS . Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost . Here shall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain , That call'd the listening Dryads to the plain ? Thames heard the numbers ...
... praise ! THYRSIS . Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost . Here shall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain , That call'd the listening Dryads to the plain ? Thames heard the numbers ...
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... praise , shall live ! THYRSIS . But see , Orion sheds unwholesome dews ; Arise , the pines a noxious shade diffuse ; Sharp Boreas blows , and nature feels decay , Time conquers all , and we must Time obey . Adieu , ye vales , ye ...
... praise , shall live ! THYRSIS . But see , Orion sheds unwholesome dews ; Arise , the pines a noxious shade diffuse ; Sharp Boreas blows , and nature feels decay , Time conquers all , and we must Time obey . Adieu , ye vales , ye ...
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... her nymph be known , But by the crescent , and the golden zone . She scorn'd the praise of beauty , and the care ; A belt her waist , a fillet binds her hair ; " A painted quiver on her shoulder sounds , And WINDSOR - FOREST .
... her nymph be known , But by the crescent , and the golden zone . She scorn'd the praise of beauty , and the care ; A belt her waist , a fillet binds her hair ; " A painted quiver on her shoulder sounds , And WINDSOR - FOREST .
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