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Hence at eve , 720 Steamed eager from the red horizon round , With the fierce rage of Winter deep suffused , An icy gale , oft shifting , o'er the pool Breathes a blue film , and in its mid - career Arrests the bickering stream .
Hence at eve , 720 Steamed eager from the red horizon round , With the fierce rage of Winter deep suffused , An icy gale , oft shifting , o'er the pool Breathes a blue film , and in its mid - career Arrests the bickering stream .
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Thy sickly taper By glimmering through thy low - browed misty vaults ( Furred round with mouldy damps and ropy slime ) ... and visionary shades , Beneath the wan cold moon ( as fame reports ) Embodied thick , perform their mystic rounds .
Thy sickly taper By glimmering through thy low - browed misty vaults ( Furred round with mouldy damps and ropy slime ) ... and visionary shades , Beneath the wan cold moon ( as fame reports ) Embodied thick , perform their mystic rounds .
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80 And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still , as each repeated pleasure tired , Succeeding sports the mirthful hand inspired ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown , By holding out to tire each other down ...
80 And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still , as each repeated pleasure tired , Succeeding sports the mirthful hand inspired ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown , By holding out to tire each other down ...
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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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