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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... tears ; mortality's relief , And , till we share your joys , forgive our grief : These little rites , a stone , a verse receive , " Tis all a father , all a friend can give ! This epitaph contains of the brother only a general ...
... tears ; mortality's relief , And , till we share your joys , forgive our grief : These little rites , a stone , a verse receive , " Tis all a father , all a friend can give ! This epitaph contains of the brother only a general ...
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... tears ; The winds , and trees , and floods , her death deplore , Daphne our grief , our glory now no more ! But see ! where Daphne wondering mounts on high , Above the clouds , above the starry sky ! Eternal beauties grace the shining ...
... tears ; The winds , and trees , and floods , her death deplore , Daphne our grief , our glory now no more ! But see ! where Daphne wondering mounts on high , Above the clouds , above the starry sky ! Eternal beauties grace the shining ...
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... tears his frustrate labour yields , And , famish'd , dies amidst his ripen'd fields . What wonder then , a beast or subject slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled , But , while the ...
... tears his frustrate labour yields , And , famish'd , dies amidst his ripen'd fields . What wonder then , a beast or subject slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled , But , while the ...
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... tears the river shed , When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire , And on his willows hung each muse's lyre . Since fate relentless stopp'd their heavenly voice , No more the forests ring , or ...
... tears the river shed , When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire , And on his willows hung each muse's lyre . Since fate relentless stopp'd their heavenly voice , No more the forests ring , or ...
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... tears them from the land . Antistrophe 2 . Ye gods ! what justice rules the ball ! Freedom and arts together fall ; Fools grant whate'er ambition craves , And men once ignorant are slaves . O cursed effects of civil hate , In every age ...
... tears them from the land . Antistrophe 2 . Ye gods ! what justice rules the ball ! Freedom and arts together fall ; Fools grant whate'er ambition craves , And men once ignorant are slaves . O cursed effects of civil hate , In every age ...
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