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To dream once more I close my willing eyes ; Ye soft illusions , dear deceits , arise ! 240 Alas , no more ! methinks we wand'ring go Through dreary wastes , and weep each other's woe , Where round some mould'ring tower pale ivy creeps ...
To dream once more I close my willing eyes ; Ye soft illusions , dear deceits , arise ! 240 Alas , no more ! methinks we wand'ring go Through dreary wastes , and weep each other's woe , Where round some mould'ring tower pale ivy creeps ...
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The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect ; 1 but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after nation , and century after ...
The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect ; 1 but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after nation , and century after ...
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10 To 20 laborious entertainment , they at first rival Poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favor once shown to her , and , though but younger sisters , seize upon the elder's birthright .
10 To 20 laborious entertainment , they at first rival Poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favor once shown to her , and , though but younger sisters , seize upon the elder's birthright .
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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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