The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJones and Company, 1827 - 424 pages |
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Page ix
... fame distracts mankind below , And nothing can we tell , and nothing know ) Without your aid , to count th ' unnumber'd train , A thousand months , a thousand tongues , were vain . Where the war bleeds , and where the fiercest rage ...
... fame distracts mankind below , And nothing can we tell , and nothing know ) Without your aid , to count th ' unnumber'd train , A thousand months , a thousand tongues , were vain . Where the war bleeds , and where the fiercest rage ...
Page xiii
... fame , and found no diminution of his respect and tenderness . Whatever was his pride , to them he was obedient ; and whatever was his irritability , to them he was gentle . Life has , among its soothing and quiet comforts , few things ...
... fame , and found no diminution of his respect and tenderness . Whatever was his pride , to them he was obedient ; and whatever was his irritability , to them he was gentle . Life has , among its soothing and quiet comforts , few things ...
Page xxi
... Fame , and his fault was , that he pretended to neglect it . His levity and his sullenness were only in his Letters ; he passed through common life sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased with the natural emotions of common men . His ...
... Fame , and his fault was , that he pretended to neglect it . His levity and his sullenness were only in his Letters ; he passed through common life sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased with the natural emotions of common men . His ...
Page xxix
... fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies Of this inscription the chief fault is , that it belongs less to Rowe , for whom it was written , than to Dryden , who was buried near him ; and indeed gives very little ...
... fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies Of this inscription the chief fault is , that it belongs less to Rowe , for whom it was written , than to Dryden , who was buried near him ; and indeed gives very little ...
Page xxxi
... fame , Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham : In whom a race , for courage famed and art , Ends in the milder merit of the heart : And , chiefs or sages , long to Britain given , Pays the last tribute of a saint to Heaven . This ...
... fame , Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham : In whom a race , for courage famed and art , Ends in the milder merit of the heart : And , chiefs or sages , long to Britain given , Pays the last tribute of a saint to Heaven . This ...
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