To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.Alexander Pope
Mean tho' I am, not wholly so,
Since quicken'd by thy breath;
O lead me whereso'er I go,
Thro' this day's life or death!
Alexander Pope
Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,
And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?
Alexander Pope
Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved for beauties not his own.
Alexander Pope
From Abelard it came,
And Eloisa yet must kiss the name.
Alexander Pope
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
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