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40 ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND CONSIDERED AS THE SUBJECT OF POETRY I And thou , thou rich - haired Youth of Morn , And all thy subject life was born ! The dangerous Passions kept aloof , Far from the ...
40 ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND CONSIDERED AS THE SUBJECT OF POETRY I And thou , thou rich - haired Youth of Morn , And all thy subject life was born ! The dangerous Passions kept aloof , Far from the ...
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O Luxury ! thou cursed by Heaven's decree , How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions , with insidious joy , Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee , to sickly ...
O Luxury ! thou cursed by Heaven's decree , How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions , with insidious joy , Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee , to sickly ...
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30 But , Mousie , thou art no thy lane , In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o ' mice an ' men Gang aft a - gley . 40 An ' lea'e us nought but grief an ' pain For promised joy Still thou art blest , compared wi ' me ...
30 But , Mousie , thou art no thy lane , In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o ' mice an ' men Gang aft a - gley . 40 An ' lea'e us nought but grief an ' pain For promised joy Still thou art blest , compared wi ' me ...
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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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