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No pardon vile obscenity should find , 530 Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure , wealth , and ease , Sprung the rank ...
No pardon vile obscenity should find , 530 Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure , wealth , and ease , Sprung the rank ...
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Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares not for service , or but serves when press'd , Stays till we call , and then not often near ; But honest instinct comes a volunteer , Sure never to o'ershoot , but just to hit ; While still ...
Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares not for service , or but serves when press'd , Stays till we call , and then not often near ; But honest instinct comes a volunteer , Sure never to o'ershoot , but just to hit ; While still ...
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Or , if to wit a coxcomb make pretence , Guard the sure barrier between that and sense ; Or quite unravel all the reas'ning thread , And hang some curious cobweb in its stead ! 180 As , forced from wind - guns , lead itself can fly ...
Or , if to wit a coxcomb make pretence , Guard the sure barrier between that and sense ; Or quite unravel all the reas'ning thread , And hang some curious cobweb in its stead ! 180 As , forced from wind - guns , lead itself can fly ...
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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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