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Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued)

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Heaven first taught letters for some wretch’s aid,
Some banish’d lover, or some captive maid.

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 51.

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 57.

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And truths divine came mended from that tongue.

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 66.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 74.

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And love the offender, yet detest the offence. 1

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 192.

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How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 207.

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. 2

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 273.

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See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll,
Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul.

Eloisa to Abelard. Line 323.

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most. 3

Eloisa to Abelard. Last line.

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Not chaos-like together crush’d and bruis’d,
But as the world, harmoniously confus’d,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.

Windsor Forest. Line 13.

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A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.

Windsor Forest. Line 61.

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From old Belerium to the northern main.

Windsor Forest. Line 316.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call;
She comes unlooked for if she comes at all.

The Temple of Fame. Line 513.

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Unblemish’d let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

The Temple of Fame. Last line.

Note 1.
See Dryden, Quotation 61. [back]

Note 2.
Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.—Edmund Smith: Phædra and Hippolytus, act i. sc. 1. [back]

Note 3.
See Addison, Quotation 22. [back]

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