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The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 365
by Alexander Pope - 1822
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...Others on earth o'er human race preside. Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair, NoL a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...in their natural order. i For example, in the following lines from the Rape of the Lock : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. Though the melody of the verse inclines US strongly to pause at arms, yet the adjective divine, immediately...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watoh all their ways, and all their actions puidc; Of these the chief the care of nations own. And guard with arms divine the British throne, " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious carr; To save...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...Others, on earth, o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 90 Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 23

Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 400 pages
...all. But of this he has given us a plain demonstration : tor speaking of these spirits, he says iu express terms, . The chief, the care of nations own,...And here let it not seem odd, if in this mysterious :vay of writing, we find the same person, who has before heen represented by the baron, again described...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide : Of these " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide I Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...Others, on earth, o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. ' Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide : Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British Throne. 90 Our humbler province is to tend the Fair, Not a less pleasing, tho' less glorious care ; To save...
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