Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame,
When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name;
My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind,
Some emanation of th' all-beauteous Mind.
(Eloisa To Abelard)
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Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell,When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell?
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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
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Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.
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Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix'd; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.
Alexander Pope
Then unbelieving priests reformed the nation, And taught more pleasant methods of salvation.
Alexander Pope
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
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