The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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Page 52
... blood , And purer spirits swell the sprightly flood , That , crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn , Now range the hills , the gameful woods beset , Like verdant isles the sable waste adorn . Let India boast her plants , nor envy ...
... blood , And purer spirits swell the sprightly flood , That , crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn , Now range the hills , the gameful woods beset , Like verdant isles the sable waste adorn . Let India boast her plants , nor envy ...
Page 54
... blood . High in the midst , upon his urn reclined ( His sea - green mantle waving with the wind , ) The god appear'd ... blood Red Iber's sands , or Ister's foaming flood : Safe on my shore each unmolested swain Shall tend the flocks ...
... blood . High in the midst , upon his urn reclined ( His sea - green mantle waving with the wind , ) The god appear'd ... blood Red Iber's sands , or Ister's foaming flood : Safe on my shore each unmolested swain Shall tend the flocks ...
Page 59
... blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of sense . If once right reason drives that cloud away , Truth breaks upon us with resistless day . Trust not ...
... blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of sense . If once right reason drives that cloud away , Truth breaks upon us with resistless day . Trust not ...
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... blood ; The machinery , madam , is a term invented by the critics , to signify that part which the deities , angels , or demons , are made to act in a poem : for the ancient poets are , in one respect , like many modern ladies : let an ...
... blood ; The machinery , madam , is a term invented by the critics , to signify that part which the deities , angels , or demons , are made to act in a poem : for the ancient poets are , in one respect , like many modern ladies : let an ...
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... blood , The horrid forms of Scythian heroes stood ; Druids and Bards ( their once loud harps unstrung ) And youths that died to be by poets sung . These and a thousand more of doubtful fame , To whom old fables give a lasting name , In ...
... blood , The horrid forms of Scythian heroes stood ; Druids and Bards ( their once loud harps unstrung ) And youths that died to be by poets sung . These and a thousand more of doubtful fame , To whom old fables give a lasting name , In ...
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