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 iii
... Wife of Bath , her Prologue Thebais of Statius The Fable of Dryope Vertumnus and Pomona ' mitations of English Poets , -Chaucer · 141 155 · - 177 189 · 213 216 - 220 Spenser Waller Cowley ib . 222 223 Earl of Rochester - on Silence Earl ...
... Wife of Bath , her Prologue Thebais of Statius The Fable of Dryope Vertumnus and Pomona ' mitations of English Poets , -Chaucer · 141 155 · - 177 189 · 213 216 - 220 Spenser Waller Cowley ib . 222 223 Earl of Rochester - on Silence Earl ...
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... Bestia's from the throne . Born to no pride , inheriting no strife , Nor marrying discord in a noble wife ; Stranger to civil and religious rage , The good man walk'd innoxious through his age : No courts he saw , no suits would ever try.
... Bestia's from the throne . Born to no pride , inheriting no strife , Nor marrying discord in a noble wife ; Stranger to civil and religious rage , The good man walk'd innoxious through his age : No courts he saw , no suits would ever try.
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... wife to the bed - side , and earnestly entreated her not to deny him one request , the last he should ever make : upon her assurance of of consenting to it , he told her , ' My dear , it is only this , that you will never marry an old ...
... wife to the bed - side , and earnestly entreated her not to deny him one request , the last he should ever make : upon her assurance of of consenting to it , he told her , ' My dear , it is only this , that you will never marry an old ...
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... wife ! He sung , and hell consented To hear the poet's prayer , Stern Proserpine relented , And gave him back the fair . Thus song could prevail O'er death and o'er hell ; A conquest how hard and how glorious ! Though fate had fast ...
... wife ! He sung , and hell consented To hear the poet's prayer , Stern Proserpine relented , And gave him back the fair . Thus song could prevail O'er death and o'er hell ; A conquest how hard and how glorious ! Though fate had fast ...
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... wife . ' Tis more to guide , than spur the muse's steed ; Restrain his fury , than provoke his speed .: The winged courser , like a generous horse , Shows most true mettle when you check his course Those rules of old discover'd , not ...
... wife . ' Tis more to guide , than spur the muse's steed ; Restrain his fury , than provoke his speed .: The winged courser , like a generous horse , Shows most true mettle when you check his course Those rules of old discover'd , not ...
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