The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes, Volume 2Charles Whittingham, 1808 |
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... knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old those met rewards who could excel , And such were prais'd who but endeavour'd well : Though triumphs were to generals only due ...
... knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old those met rewards who could excel , And such were prais'd who but endeavour'd well : Though triumphs were to generals only due ...
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... knave . 4. This light and darkness in our chaos join'd , What shall divide ? -the God within the mind . Extremes in nature equal ends produce ; In man they join to some mysterious use ; Though each by turns the other's bounds invade ...
... knave . 4. This light and darkness in our chaos join'd , What shall divide ? -the God within the mind . Extremes in nature equal ends produce ; In man they join to some mysterious use ; Though each by turns the other's bounds invade ...
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... knave ) Contents us not . - A better shall we have ? A kingdom of the just then let it be ; But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; But who but God can tell us who they are ? One thinks on ...
... knave ) Contents us not . - A better shall we have ? A kingdom of the just then let it be ; But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; But who but God can tell us who they are ? One thinks on ...
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... knave deserves it when he tills the soil , The knave deserves it when he tempts the main , Where folly fights for kings , or dives for gain . The good man may be weak , be indolent ; Nor is his claim to plenty but content . But grant ...
... knave deserves it when he tills the soil , The knave deserves it when he tempts the main , Where folly fights for kings , or dives for gain . The good man may be weak , be indolent ; Nor is his claim to plenty but content . But grant ...
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... knave . Who noble ends by noble means obtains , Or failing , smiles in exile or in chains , Like good Aurelius let him reign , or bleed Like Socrates ; -that man is great indeed . What's fame ? a fancied life in others ' breath ; A ...
... knave . Who noble ends by noble means obtains , Or failing , smiles in exile or in chains , Like good Aurelius let him reign , or bleed Like Socrates ; -that man is great indeed . What's fame ? a fancied life in others ' breath ; A ...
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