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Since has she rounded the revolving year : Skimmed the gay Spring ; on eagle - pinions borne , Attempted through the Summer - blaze to rise ; Then swept o'er Autumn with the shadowy gale ; And now among the wintry clouds again , Rolled ...
Since has she rounded the revolving year : Skimmed the gay Spring ; on eagle - pinions borne , Attempted through the Summer - blaze to rise ; Then swept o'er Autumn with the shadowy gale ; And now among the wintry clouds again , Rolled ...
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Nor less the northern courts , wide o'er the snow , Pour a new pomp . Eager , on rapid sleds , Their vigorous youth in bold contention wheel The long - resounding course . Meantime , to raise The manly strife , with highly blooming ...
Nor less the northern courts , wide o'er the snow , Pour a new pomp . Eager , on rapid sleds , Their vigorous youth in bold contention wheel The long - resounding course . Meantime , to raise The manly strife , with highly blooming ...
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870 Obsequious at their call , the docile tribe Yield to the sled their necks , and whirl them swift O'er hill and dale , heaped into one expanse Of marbled snow , or , far as eye can sweep , With a blue crust of ice unbounded glazed .
870 Obsequious at their call , the docile tribe Yield to the sled their necks , and whirl them swift O'er hill and dale , heaped into one expanse Of marbled snow , or , far as eye can sweep , With a blue crust of ice unbounded glazed .
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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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