The Works of the English Poets, Volume 34 |
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30 Allure , with tender verse , the Female race , 25 And give their darling passion , courtly grace . Describe the Forest still in rural strains , With vernal sweets fresh - breathing from the plains . Your Tales be easy , natural , and ...
30 Allure , with tender verse , the Female race , 25 And give their darling passion , courtly grace . Describe the Forest still in rural strains , With vernal sweets fresh - breathing from the plains . Your Tales be easy , natural , and ...
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50 Whose virgin name no time nor change can hide , Though ev'n her spotless waves should cease to glide : In mighty Pope's immortalizing strains , 40 Still shall she grace and range the verdant plains ; By him selected for the Muses ...
50 Whose virgin name no time nor change can hide , Though ev'n her spotless waves should cease to glide : In mighty Pope's immortalizing strains , 40 Still shall she grace and range the verdant plains ; By him selected for the Muses ...
Page xix
But when the artist does a work design , Where bolder rage informs each breathing line ; When the stretch'd cloth a rougher stroke receives , And Cæfar awful in the canvas lives ; When Art like lavish Nature's self supplies , Grace to ...
But when the artist does a work design , Where bolder rage informs each breathing line ; When the stretch'd cloth a rougher stroke receives , And Cæfar awful in the canvas lives ; When Art like lavish Nature's self supplies , Grace to ...
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Bieit Swaias , whose Nymphs in every grace excell ; 95 I left Nymphs , whos Swains thcie 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 ...
Bieit Swaias , whose Nymphs in every grace excell ; 95 I left Nymphs , whos Swains thcie 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 ...
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But see ! where Daphne wondering mounts on high Above the clouds , above the starry sky ! 70 Eternal beauties grace the shining scene , Fields ever fresh , and groves for ever green ! There 65 There while you rest in Amaranthine bowers ...
But see ! where Daphne wondering mounts on high Above the clouds , above the starry sky ! 70 Eternal beauties grace the shining scene , Fields ever fresh , and groves for ever green ! There 65 There while you rest in Amaranthine bowers ...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 34 |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, William Strahan (Londres), Charles Bathurst (Londres) |
| Publisher | W. and A. Strahan, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2010 |
| Length | 360 pages |
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