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Twas then , Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardours , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now , unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd ...
Twas then , Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardours , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now , unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd ...
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90 Full o'er their heads the swelling bag he rent , And all the furies issued at the vent . Belinda burns with more than mortal ire ... For this with fillets strain'd your tender head , And bravely bore the double loads of lead ?
90 Full o'er their heads the swelling bag he rent , And all the furies issued at the vent . Belinda burns with more than mortal ire ... For this with fillets strain'd your tender head , And bravely bore the double loads of lead ?
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into his mouth , which , flying straight up into his head , squeezed out his eye - balls , gave him a distorted look , and half overturned his brain . Then she privately ordered two of her beloved children , Dulness and 111- Manners ...
into his mouth , which , flying straight up into his head , squeezed out his eye - balls , gave him a distorted look , and half overturned his brain . Then she privately ordered two of her beloved children , Dulness and 111- Manners ...
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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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