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...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ...r’s hair,—a feat which led to an estrangement between the fami- lies. Pope set himself to reconcile them by this beautiful poem,—a poem which has emba... ...ughts in the Essay; but it is not probable that a man like Pope would have set himself on such a subject simply to translate from another’s mind. He p... ...n falsehood, finesse, treachery, and envy, he stood at the bot- tom of the list, without that plea of poverty, or wretched- ness, or despair, which so... ...ves, The thrush may chant to the forsaken groves, But, charm’d to silence, listens while she sings, And all the aërial audience clap their wings. Soon... ...bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day...

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

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