 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 254 pages
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the (lumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 250 pages
...taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the (lumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 25 5 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 338 pages
...ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard! ,for what haft thou to dread? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature (lands check'd; Religion difapproves;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 304 pages
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving ipirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 290 pages
...were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature flands chcck'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...behind. For thee the Fates, severely kind, ordain A cool susf ence from pleasure and from pain : 250 Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose ; No pulse...gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard! for what hast thpn to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bad the waters flow; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 428 pages
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. • Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 486 pages
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 480 pages
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard! for what haft thou to dread? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
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Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving spirit bade the waters flow; Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd... 
