Alexander Pope

“ Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to strive again;
Not Chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where, tho all things differ, all agree.
Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display,
And part admit, and part exclude the day;
As some coy nymph her lover's warm address
Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress:
There, interspers'd in lawns and opening glades,
Thin trees arise that shun each others shades. ”

“ What could be free, when lawless beasts obey'd
And ev'n the Elements a Tyrant sway'd?
In vain kind seasons swell'd the teeming grain,
Soft show'rs distill'd, and Suns grew warm in vain;
The swain with tears to beasts his labour yields,
And famish'd dies amidst his ripen'd fields.
No wonder savages or subjects slain
Were equal crimes in a despotic reign;
Both doom'd alike for sportive Tyrants bled,
But subjects starv'd while savages were fed.
Proud Nimrod first the bloody chace began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. ”

“ Feeds from his hand, and in his bosom warms;
Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage,
The promis'd: [10] father of the future age.
No more [11] shall nation against nation rise,
Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes,
Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er,
The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more;
But useless lances into scythes shall bend,
And the broad faulchion in a plow-share end.
Then palaces shall rise; the joyful [12] Son
Shall finish what his short-liv'd Sire begun;
Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield,
And the same hand that sow'd shall reap the field. ”

“ The captive Race, one instant makes our prize,
And high in air Britannia's standard flies.
⁠See! from the brake the whirring Pheasant springs,
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:
Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. ”

“ And trace the mazes of the circling hare.
(Beasts, taught by us, their fellow beasts pursue,
And learn of man each other to undo.)
With slaught'ring guns th'unweary'd fowler roves,
When frosts have whiten'd all the naked groves;
Where doves in flocks the leafless trees o'ershade,
And lonely woodcocks haunt the wat'ry glade. ”

“ The time draws nigh, O beloved offspring of the Gods, O great encrease of Jove! The uncultivated mountains send shouts of joy to the stars, the very rocks sing in verse, the very shrubs cry out, A God, a God! ”

“ With many other Embassies from England, France, Spain, which afford useful historical Relations no where else to be found. Also a large Account of the Constitution of the German Empire, the manner of electing their Emperor, of the Electoral College of the Golden Bull, of the Election of a King of the Romans, the Rights and Prerogatives of the several Electors, and the Laws and Usages of the Empire. ”

“ Round broken Columns clasping Ivy twin'd,
O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind; ”

“ Isaiah, Ch.40. ꝟ. 3, 4. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord! make strait in the desart a high way for our God! Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made strait, and the rough places plain, Ch. ”

“ Isaiah, Ch. 35. ꝟ. 1. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the defart shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. Ch. 60. ꝟ. 13. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the firr-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of thy Sanctuary. ”

“ In genial Spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade,
Where cooling vapours breath along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand,
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks uomov'd, he hopes the scaly breed,
And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed. ”

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The Works of Mr. Edmund Smith, late of Christ-Church, Oxford; Containing, l. Phædra and Hippolytus. II. A Poem on the Death of Mr. John Philips. III. Bodleian Speech. IV. Pocockius, &c. ”

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“ First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains.
↑ The Forest Laws. ↑ Alluding to the new forest, and the tyrannies exercis'd there by William the first. ↑ Richard, second son of William the Conqueror. ↑ The River Loddon. ↑ Mr. Cowley died at Chertsey on the borders of the Forest, and was from thence convey'd to Westminster. ↑ Henry Howard E. of Surrey, one of the first refiners of the English Poetry; who flourish'd in the time of Henry the VIIIth. ↑ Edward III. born here. ”

“ The Competition between France and Spain, and several other Princes and States, about Rank. II. Treating of the Function of Embassadors: Their manner of negociating: Their Liberty of Speech: Their secret Services, Letters, Dispatches: Of their mediatory Treaties: Of the Treaty of Westphalia, and all other Treaties in the last Century. Of Ratifications. The Lives and Characters of the most illustrious Embassadors, and of several splendid Embassies: (viz.) 1. That of Sir Francis Walsingham from Q. Elizabeth to France. 2. The Duke of Buckingham to Spain and France. ”

“ Eloisa to Abelard, a Poem. Also Verses to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady. Both by Mr. Pope. To which is added, Florelio, a Pastoral; lamenting the Death of the late Marquis of Blandford. By Mr. Fenton. Upon the Death of her Husband, by Mrs. Elizabeth Singer. A pastoral Ballad, by Mr. Gay. Richy and Sandy, a Pastoral, on the Death of Mr. Joseph Addison, by Mr. Allan Ramsay, a Scotch Poem. An Explanation of Richy and Sandy, with a Poem to Mr Allan Ramsay on his Richy and Sandy. ”

“ Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away;
But fix'd his word, his saving pow'r remains,
Thy Realm for ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns!
↑ Isaiah, chap. 11. ꝟ. 1. ↑ Chap. 45. ꝟ. 8. ↑ Chap. 25. ꝟ. 4. ↑ Chap. 9. ꝟ. 7. ↑ Chap. 35. ꝟ. 2. ↑ Chap. 40. ꝟ.3, 4. ↑ Chap 42. ꝟ. 18.Chap 35. ꝟ. 5, 6. ↑ Chap 25. ꝟ. 8. ↑ Chap. 40. ꝟ. 11. ↑ Chap. 9. ꝟ. 6. ↑ Chap. 2. ꝟ. 4. ↑ Chap. 65. ꝟ. 21, 22. ↑ Chap. 35. ꝟ. 1, 7. ↑ Chap. 41. ꝟ. 19. and Chap. 55. ꝟ. 13. ↑ Chap. 11. ꝟ. 6, 7, 8. ↑ Chap. 65. ꝟ. 25. ↑ Chap. 60. ꝟ. 1. ↑ Chap. 60. ꝟ. 4. ↑ Chap. 60. ꝟ. 3. ↑ Chap. 60. ꝟ. 6. ↑ Chap. 60. ꝟ. 19, 20. ”