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The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise." Pope.

at which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment. Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust. Pope.

An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope.

side facing each other; a hackney coach. On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. Pope.

Of hail. "Haily showers." Pope.

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

See Hawser. Pope.

To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck. [R.] "Sir Balaam hangs." Pope.

ccess. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

age. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. Pope.

liv. 15. The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. Pope.

nt; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. Pope.

ak. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope.

The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller. The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth. Harvest fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Ha…

ome dance, some haul the rope. Denham. Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land. Pope. Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

Wounded to the heart with love or grief. Pope.

or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. And the huge columns heave into the sky. Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett.

ench translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.

or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues. And I his heir in misery alone. Pope. Heir apparent. (Law.) See under Apparent. -- Heir at law, one who, after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Heir presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die…

Toward hell. Pope.