The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J. Woodward, 1841 - 484 pages |
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Page 53
... beneath the quivering shade , Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead , The patient fisher takes his silent stand , Intent , his angle trembling in his hand ; With looks unmoved , he hopes the scaly breed , And eyes the dancing ...
... beneath the quivering shade , Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead , The patient fisher takes his silent stand , Intent , his angle trembling in his hand ; With looks unmoved , he hopes the scaly breed , And eyes the dancing ...
Page 65
... beneath . Some to the sun their insect wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
... beneath . Some to the sun their insect wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
Page 73
... beneath my body blow , And softly lay me on the waves below ! And thou , kind Love , my sinking limbs sustain , Spread thy soft wings , and waft me o'er the main , Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane ! On Phœbus ' shrine ...
... beneath my body blow , And softly lay me on the waves below ! And thou , kind Love , my sinking limbs sustain , Spread thy soft wings , and waft me o'er the main , Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane ! On Phœbus ' shrine ...
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... beneath his laws to roll , And stretch'd his empire to the frozen pole : Or long before , with early valour , strove In youthful arms to assert the cause of Jove . And thou , great heir of all thy father's fame , Increase of glory to ...
... beneath his laws to roll , And stretch'd his empire to the frozen pole : Or long before , with early valour , strove In youthful arms to assert the cause of Jove . And thou , great heir of all thy father's fame , Increase of glory to ...
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... beneath Malea's airy height Aloft she sprung , and steer'd to Thebes her flight ; With eager speed the well - known journey took , Nor here regrets the hell she late forsook . A hundred snakes her gloomy visage shade , A hundred ...
... beneath Malea's airy height Aloft she sprung , and steer'd to Thebes her flight ; With eager speed the well - known journey took , Nor here regrets the hell she late forsook . A hundred snakes her gloomy visage shade , A hundred ...
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