The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... virtues of a former age , might recommend them to the present . And since the life of shepherds was attended with more tranquil- lity than any other rural employment , the poets choose to introduce their persons , from whom it received ...
... virtues of a former age , might recommend them to the present . And since the life of shepherds was attended with more tranquil- lity than any other rural employment , the poets choose to introduce their persons , from whom it received ...
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... virtue's train along , Moral truth and mystic song ! To what new clime , what distant sky , Forsaken , friendless , shall ye fly ? Say , will ye bless the bleak Atlantic shore ? Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more ? Strophe 2 . When ...
... virtue's train along , Moral truth and mystic song ! To what new clime , what distant sky , Forsaken , friendless , shall ye fly ? Say , will ye bless the bleak Atlantic shore ? Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more ? Strophe 2 . When ...
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... virtue , dost thou blame desire , Which nature hath imprest ? Why nature , dost thou soonest fire The mild and generous breast ; Chorus . Love's purer flames the gods approve ; The gods and Brutus bend to love : Brutus for absent Porcia ...
... virtue , dost thou blame desire , Which nature hath imprest ? Why nature , dost thou soonest fire The mild and generous breast ; Chorus . Love's purer flames the gods approve ; The gods and Brutus bend to love : Brutus for absent Porcia ...
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... at whose uurivall'd shrine Ease , pleasure , virtue , all our sex resign . Methinks already I your tears survey , Already hear the horrid things they say , 7 Already see you a degraded toast , And all THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . 87.
... at whose uurivall'd shrine Ease , pleasure , virtue , all our sex resign . Methinks already I your tears survey , Already hear the horrid things they say , 7 Already see you a degraded toast , And all THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . 87.
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... virtue as in face ! Oh ! if to dance all night and dress ail day , Charm'd the small - pox , or chas'd old age away , Who would not scorn what housewife's cares pro- duce , Or who would learn one earthly thing of use ? To patch , nay ...
... virtue as in face ! Oh ! if to dance all night and dress ail day , Charm'd the small - pox , or chas'd old age away , Who would not scorn what housewife's cares pro- duce , Or who would learn one earthly thing of use ? To patch , nay ...
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