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Page 72
... beauty's praise above The sea - nymphs , and their powers Yet thou art higher far descended , Thee bright haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she , ( in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain ...
... beauty's praise above The sea - nymphs , and their powers Yet thou art higher far descended , Thee bright haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she , ( in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain ...
Page 82
... beauty shed , And daffodillies fill their cups with tears , To strew the Laureat hearse where Lycid lies . For , so to interpose a little ease , Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise . Ah me ! Whilst thee the shores and ...
... beauty shed , And daffodillies fill their cups with tears , To strew the Laureat hearse where Lycid lies . For , so to interpose a little ease , Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise . Ah me ! Whilst thee the shores and ...
Page 97
... birds betray , Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey , Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare , And beauty draws us with a single hair . FROM THE " ELEGY . " As into air the 9 POPE . 97 From the Rape of the Lock'
... birds betray , Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey , Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare , And beauty draws us with a single hair . FROM THE " ELEGY . " As into air the 9 POPE . 97 From the Rape of the Lock'
Page 99
... beauty , titles , wealth , and fame . How loved , how honoured once , avails thee not , To whom related , or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee , " Tis all thou art , and all the proud shall be ; Poets themselves must ...
... beauty , titles , wealth , and fame . How loved , how honoured once , avails thee not , To whom related , or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee , " Tis all thou art , and all the proud shall be ; Poets themselves must ...
Page 107
... beauty of the waste ; And , scorning all the taming arts of man , The keen hyena , fellest of the fell . These , rushing from the inhospitable woods Of Mauritania , or the tufted isles , That verdant rise amid the Lybian wild ...
... beauty of the waste ; And , scorning all the taming arts of man , The keen hyena , fellest of the fell . These , rushing from the inhospitable woods Of Mauritania , or the tufted isles , That verdant rise amid the Lybian wild ...
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