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...THE ESSAYS 5 ?Of Truth 7 ?Of Death 9 ?Of Unity in Religion 12 ?Of Revenge 13 ?Of Adversity 14 ?Of Simulation and Dissimulation 17 ?Of Parents and Children 18 ?Of Marriage and Single Life 20 ?Of Envy 24 ?Of Love 25 ?Of Great Place 28 ?Of Bo...

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...AL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE Volume T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE R... ...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ed. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how mu... ... puddings smoked upon the board. 360 Asleep and naked as an Indian lay, An honest factor stole a gem away: He pledged it to the knight;... ...Presumptuous Crete, that boasts the tomb of Jove? And shall not Tantalus’s kingdoms share Thy wife and sister’s tutelary care? Reverse, O Jove! thy to... ...out the constant assistance of the gods—for the subversion and erection of empires have never been ad- judged the work of man. How greatly soever, the... ...orks, which by modest computation may be about a hundred thousand in these kingdoms of England and Ire- land (not to mention Jersey, Guernsey, the Orc...

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