The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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Page 14
... spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon sung their rural Jays : This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love ; And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succours bring ; Hylas and Ægon's rural ...
... spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon sung their rural Jays : This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love ; And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succours bring ; Hylas and Ægon's rural ...
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... spread , The forests wonder'd at th ' unusual grain , And secret transports touch'd the conscious swain . Fair liberty , Britannia's goddess , rears Her cheerful head , and leads the golden years . Ye vigorous swains ! while youth ...
... spread , The forests wonder'd at th ' unusual grain , And secret transports touch'd the conscious swain . Fair liberty , Britannia's goddess , rears Her cheerful head , and leads the golden years . Ye vigorous swains ! while youth ...
Page 39
... spreading sounds the skies ; Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes , In broken air trembling , the wild music floats ; Till , by degrees , remote and small , The strains decay , And melt away , In a dying , dying fall . By music ...
... spreading sounds the skies ; Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes , In broken air trembling , the wild music floats ; Till , by degrees , remote and small , The strains decay , And melt away , In a dying , dying fall . By music ...
Page 57
... spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey , All glares alike , without distinction gay : But true expression , like th ' unchanging sun , Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects , but it ...
... spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey , All glares alike , without distinction gay : But true expression , like th ' unchanging sun , Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects , but it ...
Page 66
... Spread all his sails , and durst the deeps explore : He steer'd securely , and discover'd far , Led by the light of the Mæonian star . Poets , a race long unconfin'd and free , Still fond and proud of savage liberty , Receiv'd his laws ...
... Spread all his sails , and durst the deeps explore : He steer'd securely , and discover'd far , Led by the light of the Mæonian star . Poets , a race long unconfin'd and free , Still fond and proud of savage liberty , Receiv'd his laws ...
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