The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volumes 1-2Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - 616 pages |
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Page 49
... heaven and earth deplore ; Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! ' " Tis done , and Nature's various charms decay : See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day : Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear , Their faded ...
... heaven and earth deplore ; Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! ' " Tis done , and Nature's various charms decay : See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day : Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear , Their faded ...
Page 54
... heaven its sparkling portals wide display , And break upon them in a flood of day ! No more the rising sun4 shall gild the morn , Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost , dissolved in thy superior rays , One tide of glory ...
... heaven its sparkling portals wide display , And break upon them in a flood of day ! No more the rising sun4 shall gild the morn , Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost , dissolved in thy superior rays , One tide of glory ...
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... Heaven with more than mortal eyes , Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , Survey the region , and confess her home ! Such was the life great Scipio once admired , Thus Atticus , and Trumbal ...
... Heaven with more than mortal eyes , Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , Survey the region , and confess her home ! Such was the life great Scipio once admired , Thus Atticus , and Trumbal ...
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... heaven itself though sevenfold Nilus flows , And harvests on a hundred realms bestows ; These now no more shall be the muses ' themes , Lost in my fame , as in the sea their streams . Let Volga's banks with iron squadrons shine , And ...
... heaven itself though sevenfold Nilus flows , And harvests on a hundred realms bestows ; These now no more shall be the muses ' themes , Lost in my fame , as in the sea their streams . Let Volga's banks with iron squadrons shine , And ...
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... heaven . TWO CHORUSSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS , Altered from Shakspeare by the Duke of Buckingham : at whose desire these two Chorusses were composed to supply as many wanting in his Play . They were set many years afterwards by the ...
... heaven . TWO CHORUSSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS , Altered from Shakspeare by the Duke of Buckingham : at whose desire these two Chorusses were composed to supply as many wanting in his Play . They were set many years afterwards by the ...
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