The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Translations and imitationsJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... wife these fland'rous words regard , But curse the bones of ev'ry lying bard . All other goods by fortune's hand are giv❜n , A wife is the peculiar gift of heav'n . Vain fortune's favours , never at a stay , Like empty fhadows , pafs ...
... wife these fland'rous words regard , But curse the bones of ev'ry lying bard . All other goods by fortune's hand are giv❜n , A wife is the peculiar gift of heav'n . Vain fortune's favours , never at a stay , Like empty fhadows , pafs ...
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... Wife ! ah gentle deities , can he That has a wife , e'er feel adverfity ? Would men but follow what the sex advise , All things would profper , all the world grow " Twas by Rebecca's aid that Jacob won His father's bleffing from an ...
... Wife ! ah gentle deities , can he That has a wife , e'er feel adverfity ? Would men but follow what the sex advise , All things would profper , all the world grow " Twas by Rebecca's aid that Jacob won His father's bleffing from an ...
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... wife , and live in holy ease . 90 But fince by counsel all things should be done , 95 And many heads are wifer ftill than one ; Chufe for me , you who best shall be content When my defire's approv'd by your confent . One caution yet is ...
... wife , and live in holy ease . 90 But fince by counsel all things should be done , 95 And many heads are wifer ftill than one ; Chufe for me , you who best shall be content When my defire's approv'd by your confent . One caution yet is ...
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... wife , When vig'rous blood forbids a chafter life : Those that are bleft with store of grace divine , 125 May live like faints , by heav'n's consent , and mine . And fince I speak of wedlock , let me say , ( As , thank my stars , in ...
... wife , When vig'rous blood forbids a chafter life : Those that are bleft with store of grace divine , 125 May live like faints , by heav'n's consent , and mine . And fince I speak of wedlock , let me say , ( As , thank my stars , in ...
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... wife , There fell between his brothers a debate , Placebo this was call'd , and Justin that . First to the Knight Placebo thus begun , 145 ( Mild were his looks , and pleafing was his tone ) Such prudence , Sir , in all your words ...
... wife , There fell between his brothers a debate , Placebo this was call'd , and Justin that . First to the Knight Placebo thus begun , 145 ( Mild were his looks , and pleafing was his tone ) Such prudence , Sir , in all your words ...
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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...