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A fool to pleasure , yet a slave to fame : Now deep in Taylor and the Book of Martyrs , Now drinking citron with his grace and Chartres : Now conscience chills her , and now passion burns ; And atheism and religion take their turns ; A ...
A fool to pleasure , yet a slave to fame : Now deep in Taylor and the Book of Martyrs , Now drinking citron with his grace and Chartres : Now conscience chills her , and now passion burns ; And atheism and religion take their turns ; A ...
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The vulgar herd turn off to roll with hogs , To run with horses , or to hunt ... Int'rest that waves on party - coloured wings : Turned to the sun , she casts a thousand dyes , And , as she turns , the colours fall or rise .
The vulgar herd turn off to roll with hogs , To run with horses , or to hunt ... Int'rest that waves on party - coloured wings : Turned to the sun , she casts a thousand dyes , And , as she turns , the colours fall or rise .
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To support this grandeur , which he soon began to consider could not be maintained without a better fondel than what he was born to , after much thought , he cast about at last to turn projector and virtuoso , wherein he so well ...
To support this grandeur , which he soon began to consider could not be maintained without a better fondel than what he was born to , after much thought , he cast about at last to turn projector and virtuoso , wherein he so well ...
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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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