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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... hero with distinguish'd praise . High on his helm celestial lightnings play , His beamy shield emits a living ray ; Th ' unwearied blaze incessant stream supplies , Like the red star that fires th ' autumnal skies . But Pallas now ...
... hero with distinguish'd praise . High on his helm celestial lightnings play , His beamy shield emits a living ray ; Th ' unwearied blaze incessant stream supplies , Like the red star that fires th ' autumnal skies . But Pallas now ...
Page xviii
... heroes were of opposite characters , and Pope was un- only shrunk within himself ; it was too late to transfer willing to ... hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to the ridiculous fiction , established a colony in Britain . The ...
... heroes were of opposite characters , and Pope was un- only shrunk within himself ; it was too late to transfer willing to ... hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to the ridiculous fiction , established a colony in Britain . The ...
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... hero's armed shades , Glittering through the gloomy glades ; By the youths that died for love , Wandering in the myrtle grove , Restore , restore Eurydice to life : Oh take the husband , or return the wife ! He sung , and hell consented ...
... hero's armed shades , Glittering through the gloomy glades ; By the youths that died for love , Wandering in the myrtle grove , Restore , restore Eurydice to life : Oh take the husband , or return the wife ! He sung , and hell consented ...
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... hero's glory , or the virgin's love ; In pitying love , we but our weakness show , And wild ambition well deserves its woe . Here tears shall flow from a more generous cause , Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws ; He bids your ...
... hero's glory , or the virgin's love ; In pitying love , we but our weakness show , And wild ambition well deserves its woe . Here tears shall flow from a more generous cause , Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws ; He bids your ...
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... hero then resolves his course to bend Where ancient Danaus ' fruitful fields extend , And famed Mycenc's lofty towers ascend , ( Where late the sun did Atreus ' crimes detest , And disappear'd in horror of the feast ) . And now , by ...
... hero then resolves his course to bend Where ancient Danaus ' fruitful fields extend , And famed Mycenc's lofty towers ascend , ( Where late the sun did Atreus ' crimes detest , And disappear'd in horror of the feast ) . And now , by ...
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