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In that blest moment from his oozy bed Old Father Thames advanced his reverend head ; 330 His tresses dropp'd with dews , and o'er the stream His shining horns diffused a golden gleam : Graved on his urn appear'd the moon , that guides ...
In that blest moment from his oozy bed Old Father Thames advanced his reverend head ; 330 His tresses dropp'd with dews , and o'er the stream His shining horns diffused a golden gleam : Graved on his urn appear'd the moon , that guides ...
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But if a form should appear , and a voice should tell me that a particular man had died at a particular place , and a particular hour , a fact which I had no apprehension of , nor any means of knowing , and this fact , with all its ...
But if a form should appear , and a voice should tell me that a particular man had died at a particular place , and a particular hour , a fact which I had no apprehension of , nor any means of knowing , and this fact , with all its ...
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One reason , therefore , why it will so seldom appear in a later period must be the disadvantage of living so long after the field of Fancy hath been preoccupied by the more ancient bards . We have already allowed that a truly original ...
One reason , therefore , why it will so seldom appear in a later period must be the disadvantage of living so long after the field of Fancy hath been preoccupied by the more ancient bards . We have already allowed that a truly original ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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