The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes, Volume 2Charles Whittingham, 1808 |
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... just esteem ; To copy Nature is to copy them . Some beauties yet no precepts can declare , For there's a happiness as well as care . VOL . II . C Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... just esteem ; To copy Nature is to copy them . Some beauties yet no precepts can declare , For there's a happiness as well as care . VOL . II . C Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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... happier days , Immortal heirs of universal praise ! Whose honours with increase of ages grow , As streams roll down , enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound , And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ...
... happier days , Immortal heirs of universal praise ! Whose honours with increase of ages grow , As streams roll down , enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound , And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ...
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... happiness in the present depends . - 4 . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of man's error and misery . The impiety of putting him- self in the place of God , and judging of the stuess ...
... happiness in the present depends . - 4 . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of man's error and misery . The impiety of putting him- self in the place of God , and judging of the stuess ...
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... happier island in the watery waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . ” To be content's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks ...
... happier island in the watery waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . ” To be content's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks ...
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... happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temperate , calm , and ...
... happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temperate , calm , and ...
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alike ancient ANTISTROPHE beauty Behold bless'd blessing bliss blush breast breath Cæsar Catiline charms courser creature critics death divine e'er ease EPISTLE Eurydice ev'n eyes fair faith fame fate faults fear fix'd flame folly fools form'd give glory gold gout grace happiness hate heart Heaven hecatomb human judge kings knave laws learn'd learning ligion live lord LORD BOLINGBROKE man's mankind mind moral Muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once pain parterre Phryne plain pleas'd pleasure poets pow'r praise pride proud racter rage reason rich rill rise Rome ruling passion Sappho self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine shun Shylock sighs skies slave Smil soft soul spleen taste taught thee thine things thou thought true truth turns Twas tyrant vice virtue weak wealth whate'er whole wise worm