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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete (1787)
The Works of Alexander Pope Esq in Six Volumes Complete - 1787 Author:Alexander Pope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EPISTLE ROBERT Eai-1 of OXFORD, and Earl MORTIMER. Such were the notes thy once-lov'd Poet fung, 'Till Death untimely ftop'd his tuneful tongue. Oh juft be... more »held, and loft ! admir'd, and mourn'd! With fofteft manners, gentleft arts adorn'd! Bleft in each fcience, bleft in ev'ry (train ! 5 Dear to the Mufe ! to HaR Ley dear—in vain! For him, thou oft haft bid the World attend, Fond to forget the Statefman in the Frien'd"; For Swift and him, defpis'd the farce of ftate, The fober follies of the wife and great; 19 Dextrous, the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleas'd to 'fcape from Flattery to Wit. Abfent or dead, ftill let a friend be dear, (A figh the abfent claims, the dead a tear) Recall thofe nights that clos'd thy toilfome days, 15 Still hear thy Parnell in his living lays, Who, carelefs now of Int'reft, Fame, or Fate, , - Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great; Or deeming meaneft what we greateft call, . Beholds thee glorious only in thy Fall. 20 .! .A ),:... Sfijl!e to Retert Earl of Oxford.] This Epiftk waj fent to the Earl of OStford with Dr. Parnell's Poems publiihed ty our Author, Jfter the faid Earl's Imprifonment in the Tower, and Retreat into ike Country, in the year ijar. Vol.IV. C And fure, if aught below the feats divine Can touch Immortals, 'tis a Soul like thine : A Soul Supreme, in each hard inftance try'd, Above all Pain, and Paflion, and all Pride, The rage of Pow'r, the blaft of public breath, .25 The luft of Lucre, and the dread of Death.' In vain to Deferts thy retreat is made; The- Mufe attends thee to thy filent made : 'Tis her's, the brave man's-lateft fteps to trace, Rejudge his afts, and dignify difgrace. 30 When Int'reft calls off all her fneaking train, And all th' oblig'd defert, and all the vain; She ...« less