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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... Heaven and Earth , and profound , BOOK V. V. I , But Pallas now Tydides ' soul inspires , Fills with her force , and warms with all her fires ; Above the Greeks his deathless fame to raise , And crown her hero with distinguish'd praise ...
... Heaven and Earth , and profound , BOOK V. V. I , But Pallas now Tydides ' soul inspires , Fills with her force , and warms with all her fires ; Above the Greeks his deathless fame to raise , And crown her hero with distinguish'd praise ...
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... heaven that he had lived , and that be died . The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed from Crashaw . The four next lines contain a species of praise peculiar , original , and just . Here , therefore , the insciption should have ...
... heaven that he had lived , and that be died . The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed from Crashaw . The four next lines contain a species of praise peculiar , original , and just . Here , therefore , the insciption should have ...
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... heaven to hear . Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell ; To bright Cecilia greater power is given : His numbers raised a shade from hell , Hers lift the soul to heaven . TWO CHORUSSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS . 1 Altered from Shakspeare ...
... heaven to hear . Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell ; To bright Cecilia greater power is given : His numbers raised a shade from hell , Hers lift the soul to heaven . TWO CHORUSSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS . 1 Altered from Shakspeare ...
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... Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend , lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! Oh grave where is thy victory ? Oh death ! where is thy sting . AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . Written in the Year 1709 . PART L ...
... Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend , lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! Oh grave where is thy victory ? Oh death ! where is thy sting . AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . Written in the Year 1709 . PART L ...
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... Heaven decrees ! with Heaven who can contest ? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere , Since all things lost on earth are treasured there . There heroes ' wits are kept in ponderous vases , And beaus in snuff - boxes and tweezer ...
... Heaven decrees ! with Heaven who can contest ? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere , Since all things lost on earth are treasured there . There heroes ' wits are kept in ponderous vases , And beaus in snuff - boxes and tweezer ...
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