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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... hear from him till he came back . This cold indifference extorted from Mr. Pope a protestation , that nothing should induce him ever to write to him again . Notwithstanding this peevish behaviour of Mr. Wycherley , occasioned by ...
... hear from him till he came back . This cold indifference extorted from Mr. Pope a protestation , that nothing should induce him ever to write to him again . Notwithstanding this peevish behaviour of Mr. Wycherley , occasioned by ...
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... Hear how the birds , on every bloomy spray , With joyous music wake the dawning day ! Why sit we mute , when early linnets sing , When warbling Philomel salutes the spring ? Why sit we sad , when Phosphor shines so clear , And lavish ...
... Hear how the birds , on every bloomy spray , With joyous music wake the dawning day ! Why sit we mute , when early linnets sing , When warbling Philomel salutes the spring ? Why sit we sad , when Phosphor shines so clear , And lavish ...
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... Hear what from love unpractised hearts endure , From love , the sole disease thou canst not cure . Ye shady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams , To you I mourn ; nor to the deaf I sing ...
... Hear what from love unpractised hearts endure , From love , the sole disease thou canst not cure . Ye shady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams , To you I mourn ; nor to the deaf I sing ...
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... Orpheus ' strain , The wondering forests soon should dance again , The moving mountains hear the powerful call , And headlong streams hang listening in their fall ' But see , the shepherds shun the noon - day 44 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
... Orpheus ' strain , The wondering forests soon should dance again , The moving mountains hear the powerful call , And headlong streams hang listening in their fall ' But see , the shepherds shun the noon - day 44 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... hear ; But tell the reeds , and tell the vocal shore , Fair Daphne's dead , and music is no more ! Her fate is whisper'd by the gentle breeze , And told in sighs to all the trembling trees ; The trembling trees , in every plain and wood ...
... hear ; But tell the reeds , and tell the vocal shore , Fair Daphne's dead , and music is no more ! Her fate is whisper'd by the gentle breeze , And told in sighs to all the trembling trees ; The trembling trees , in every plain and wood ...
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