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Page 56
Even he , whose soul now melts in mournful lays , Shall shortly want the generous tear he pays ; Then from his closing eyes thy form shall part , And the last pang shall tear thee from his heart , 80 Life's idle business at one gasp be ...
Even he , whose soul now melts in mournful lays , Shall shortly want the generous tear he pays ; Then from his closing eyes thy form shall part , And the last pang shall tear thee from his heart , 80 Life's idle business at one gasp be ...
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As from the wing no scar the sky retains , The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human heart the thought of death . 430 Even with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave .
As from the wing no scar the sky retains , The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human heart the thought of death . 430 Even with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave .
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Struck by that light , the human heart , A barren soil no more , Sends the sweet smell of grace abroad , Where serpents lurked before . The soul , a dreary province once Of Satan's dark domain , Feels a new empire formed within ...
Struck by that light , the human heart , A barren soil no more , Sends the sweet smell of grace abroad , Where serpents lurked before . The soul , a dreary province once Of Satan's dark domain , Feels a new empire formed within ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
Copyright | |
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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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