The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2Theophilus Barrois junior, 1783 |
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... least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can fwear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a luft to misapply , Make fatire a lampoon , and fiction lye . A lash like mine no honeft man shall dread , But ...
... least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can fwear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a luft to misapply , Make fatire a lampoon , and fiction lye . A lash like mine no honeft man shall dread , But ...
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... least a knighthood , or the bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce , With arms , and George , and Brunswick crowd the verfe , Rend with tremendous found your ears afunder , With gun , drum , trumpet ...
... least a knighthood , or the bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce , With arms , and George , and Brunswick crowd the verfe , Rend with tremendous found your ears afunder , With gun , drum , trumpet ...
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... least the medium must be clear . In this impartial glass , my Muse intends Fair to expose myself , my foes , my friends ; Publish the prefent age ; but where my text Is vice too high , referve it for the next : My foes shall wish my ...
... least the medium must be clear . In this impartial glass , my Muse intends Fair to expose myself , my foes , my friends ; Publish the prefent age ; but where my text Is vice too high , referve it for the next : My foes shall wish my ...
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... to preserve these eyes . Not to go back , is fomewhat to advance , And men must walk at least before they dance . Say , does thy blood rebel , thy bofom move With wretched av'rice , or as wretched love ? Know 42 Book 1 . IMITATIONS.
... to preserve these eyes . Not to go back , is fomewhat to advance , And men must walk at least before they dance . Say , does thy blood rebel , thy bofom move With wretched av'rice , or as wretched love ? Know 42 Book 1 . IMITATIONS.
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... least The people are a many - headed beast : Can they direct what measures to pursue , Who know themselves fo little what to do ? Alike in nothing but one luft of gold , Just half the land would buy , and half be fold : Their country's ...
... least The people are a many - headed beast : Can they direct what measures to pursue , Who know themselves fo little what to do ? Alike in nothing but one luft of gold , Just half the land would buy , and half be fold : Their country's ...
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