The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Translations and imitationsJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... race , 105 Come to these arms , and melt in this embrace ! The vows you never will return receive ; And take at least the love you will not give . See , while I write , my words are loft in tears ; The lefs my fenfe , the more my love ...
... race , 105 Come to these arms , and melt in this embrace ! The vows you never will return receive ; And take at least the love you will not give . See , while I write , my words are loft in tears ; The lefs my fenfe , the more my love ...
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... race ; The walls in venerable order grace : Heroes in animated marble frown , And Legiflators feem to think in ftone . Weftward , a fumptuous frontispiece appear'd , 75 On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd , Crown'd with an ...
... race ; The walls in venerable order grace : Heroes in animated marble frown , And Legiflators feem to think in ftone . Weftward , a fumptuous frontispiece appear'd , 75 On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd , Crown'd with an ...
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... race Of Ægypt's Priefts the gilded niches grace , 110 Who meafur'd earth , describ'd the starry spheres , And trac'd the long records of lunar years . High on his car Sefoftris ftruck my view , Whom scepter'd slaves in golden harness ...
... race Of Ægypt's Priefts the gilded niches grace , 110 Who meafur'd earth , describ'd the starry spheres , And trac'd the long records of lunar years . High on his car Sefoftris ftruck my view , Whom scepter'd slaves in golden harness ...
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... races he celebrated in the Grecian games . The fwans are emblems of Poetry , their foaring po- iture intimates the fublimity and activity of his genius . Neptune prefided over the Ifthmian , and Jupiter over the Olympian games . P ...
... races he celebrated in the Grecian games . The fwans are emblems of Poetry , their foaring po- iture intimates the fublimity and activity of his genius . Neptune prefided over the Ifthmian , and Jupiter over the Olympian games . P ...
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... race . The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run ; The fiery steeds feem ftarting from the ftone ; The champions in diftorted poftures threat ; 220 And all appear'd irregularly great . Here happy Horace tun'd th'Ausonian lyre To ...
... race . The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run ; The fiery steeds feem ftarting from the ftone ; The champions in diftorted poftures threat ; 220 And all appear'd irregularly great . Here happy Horace tun'd th'Ausonian lyre To ...
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Página 30 - Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 28 - And Saints with wonder heard the vows I made, Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew...
Página 30 - The darksome pines that o'er yon rocks reclin'd Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind, The wand'ring streams that shine between the hills, The grots that echo to the tinkling rills, The dying gales that pant upon the trees, The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze ; No more these scenes my meditation aid, Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
Página 59 - The figur'd games of Greece the column grace, Neptune and Jove survey the rapid race. The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run ; The fiery steeds seem starting from the stone ; The champions in distorted postures threat ; 220 And all appear'd irregularly great. Here happy Horace tun'd th...
Página 35 - Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine.
Página 25 - Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine. Nor foes nor fortune take this power away; And is my Abelard less kind than they?
Página 33 - The phantom flies me, as unkind as you. I call aloud; it hears not what I say; I stretch my empty arms; it glides away: To dream once more I close my willing eyes; Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise! 240 Alas no more!— methinks we wandring go Thro...
Página 35 - When from the cenfer clouds of fragrance roll, And fwelling organs lift the rifing foul, One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priefts, tapers, temples, fwim before my fight : In feas of flame my plunging foul is drown'd, 275 While Altars blaze, and Angels tremble round.
Página 27 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Página 27 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...