The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author |
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... mind , Lover of peace , and friend of human kind . Go , live ! for heaven's eternal year is thine , Go , and exalt thy mortal to divine . And thou , blest maid ! attendant on his doom , Pensive has follow'd to the silent tomb , Steer'd ...
... mind , Lover of peace , and friend of human kind . Go , live ! for heaven's eternal year is thine , Go , and exalt thy mortal to divine . And thou , blest maid ! attendant on his doom , Pensive has follow'd to the silent tomb , Steer'd ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... mind , What the weak head with strongest bias rules , Is pride ; the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits of needful pride ! For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What ...
... mind , What the weak head with strongest bias rules , Is pride ; the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits of needful pride ! For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What ...
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... mind , Still make themselves the measure of mankind : Fondly we think we honour merit then , When we but praise ourselves in other men . Parties in wit attend on those of state , And public faction doubles private hate . Pride , malice ...
... mind , Still make themselves the measure of mankind : Fondly we think we honour merit then , When we but praise ourselves in other men . Parties in wit attend on those of state , And public faction doubles private hate . Pride , malice ...
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... mind revolved with vast delight The entrancing raptures of the approaching night , Restless he sate , invoking every power To speed his bliss , and haste the happy hour . Meantime the vigorous dancers beat the ground , And songs. He ...
... mind revolved with vast delight The entrancing raptures of the approaching night , Restless he sate , invoking every power To speed his bliss , and haste the happy hour . Meantime the vigorous dancers beat the ground , And songs. He ...
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