The Poetical Works: Of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. From the Text of Dr. Warburton. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Pocket Edition. ... Embellished with Superb Engravings, Volume 1C. Cooke, 1795 |
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Page 11
... shine ; A new creation starts in ev'ry line . How fudden trees rife to the reader's fight , And make a doubtful scene of fhade and light , 35 And give at once the day , at once the night ! And here again what fweet confusion reigns , In ...
... shine ; A new creation starts in ev'ry line . How fudden trees rife to the reader's fight , And make a doubtful scene of fhade and light , 35 And give at once the day , at once the night ! And here again what fweet confusion reigns , In ...
Page 13
... shine , At once the fubject and the song divine . Peace , fung by thee , fhall pleafe ev'n Britons more Than all their fhouts for victory before . Oh ! could Britannia imitate thy ftream , The world should tremble at her awful name ...
... shine , At once the fubject and the song divine . Peace , fung by thee , fhall pleafe ev'n Britons more Than all their fhouts for victory before . Oh ! could Britannia imitate thy ftream , The world should tremble at her awful name ...
Page 14
... shine , Thou fhouldft not fail of numbers worthy thine The brightest Ancients might at once agree To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself would own thou doft excel In candid arts to play the critic well . Ovid him elf ...
... shine , Thou fhouldft not fail of numbers worthy thine The brightest Ancients might at once agree To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself would own thou doft excel In candid arts to play the critic well . Ovid him elf ...
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... shine , And grateful clusters fwell with floods of wine ; Now blushing berries paint the yellow grove : Juft Gods ! fhall all things yield returns but love ? Refound , ye Hills , refound my mournful lay ! The fhepherds cry , " Thy ...
... shine , And grateful clusters fwell with floods of wine ; Now blushing berries paint the yellow grove : Juft Gods ! fhall all things yield returns but love ? Refound , ye Hills , refound my mournful lay ! The fhepherds cry , " Thy ...
Page 35
... shine with filver froft , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure loft . Here fhall I try the fweet Alexis ' ftrain , That call'd the lift'ning Dryads to the plain ? Thames heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows ...
... shine with filver froft , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure loft . Here fhall I try the fweet Alexis ' ftrain , That call'd the lift'ning Dryads to the plain ? Thames heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows ...
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