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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... abodes , To grace the mansion of our earthly gods , Nor all his stars above a lustre show , Like the bright beauties on thy banks below : Where Jove , subdued by mortal passion still , Might 60 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
... abodes , To grace the mansion of our earthly gods , Nor all his stars above a lustre show , Like the bright beauties on thy banks below : Where Jove , subdued by mortal passion still , Might 60 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
Page 61
... mortal passion still , Might change Olympus for a nobler hill . Happy the man whom this bright court approves , His sovereign favours , and his country loves : Happy next him , who to these shades retires , Whom nature charms , and whom ...
... mortal passion still , Might change Olympus for a nobler hill . Happy the man whom this bright court approves , His sovereign favours , and his country loves : Happy next him , who to these shades retires , Whom nature charms , and whom ...
Page 73
... mortal frame : Trembling , hoping , lingering , flying- Oh the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease , fond Nature , cease thy strife , And let me languish into life . Hark ! they whisper : angels say , Sister spirit , come away . What is ...
... mortal frame : Trembling , hoping , lingering , flying- Oh the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease , fond Nature , cease thy strife , And let me languish into life . Hark ! they whisper : angels say , Sister spirit , come away . What is ...
Page 96
... mortal may enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle spirits , upon a condition very easy to all true adepts - an inviolate preservation of chastity . As to the following cantos , all the passages of them are as fabulous ...
... mortal may enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle spirits , upon a condition very easy to all true adepts - an inviolate preservation of chastity . As to the following cantos , all the passages of them are as fabulous ...
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... , Rejccts mankind , is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits , freed from mortal laws , with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please What guards the purity of melting maids , In courtly 38 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
... , Rejccts mankind , is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits , freed from mortal laws , with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please What guards the purity of melting maids , In courtly 38 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
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