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... nymphs in every grace excel ; Blest nymphs , whose swains those graces sing so well Now rise and haste to yonder woodbine bowers , A soft retreat from sudden vernal showers : The turf with rural dainties shall be crown'd , While opening ...
... nymphs in every grace excel ; Blest nymphs , whose swains those graces sing so well Now rise and haste to yonder woodbine bowers , A soft retreat from sudden vernal showers : The turf with rural dainties shall be crown'd , While opening ...
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... nymphs forsaking every cave and spring , Their early fruit and milk - white turtles bring ; Each amorous nymph prefers her gifts in vain , On you their gifts are all bestow'd again : For you the swains the fairest flowers design , And ...
... nymphs forsaking every cave and spring , Their early fruit and milk - white turtles bring ; Each amorous nymph prefers her gifts in vain , On you their gifts are all bestow'd again : For you the swains the fairest flowers design , And ...
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... nymphs , your sacred succours bring ; Hylas ' and Egon's rural lays I sing . Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit inspire , The art of Terence and Menander's fire ; Whose sense instructs us , and whose humour charms Whose judgment ...
... nymphs , your sacred succours bring ; Hylas ' and Egon's rural lays I sing . Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit inspire , The art of Terence and Menander's fire ; Whose sense instructs us , and whose humour charms Whose judgment ...
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... nymphs and sylvans cypress garlands bring . Ye weeping Loves , the stream with myrtles hide , And break your bows as when Adonis died ; And with your golden darts , now useless grown , 48 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS . Winter ·
... nymphs and sylvans cypress garlands bring . Ye weeping Loves , the stream with myrtles hide , And break your bows as when Adonis died ; And with your golden darts , now useless grown , 48 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS . Winter ·
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... nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song : To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong . The mossy fountains and the sylvan shades , The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian maids , Delight no more - O Thou my voice inspire , Who touch'd Isaiah's ...
... nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song : To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong . The mossy fountains and the sylvan shades , The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian maids , Delight no more - O Thou my voice inspire , Who touch'd Isaiah's ...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ... Alexander Pope Visualização completa - 1808 |
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Página 240 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 9 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 5 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage !' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Página 73 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day : Sound sleep by night ; study and ease, Together mix'd ; sweet recreation, And innocence which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die : Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where...
Página 249 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Página 98 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Página 246 - Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Página 236 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 78 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky license answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that license is a rule.
Página 73 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.