The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... our writers into two claffes , of fuch who were acquaintance , and of fuch who were strangers to our author ; the former are those ( 4 ) Daily Journal , Aprit 3 , 1728 . who who speak well , and the other those who speak 28 TESTIMONIES.
... our writers into two claffes , of fuch who were acquaintance , and of fuch who were strangers to our author ; the former are those ( 4 ) Daily Journal , Aprit 3 , 1728 . who who speak well , and the other those who speak 28 TESTIMONIES.
Page 29
... Alexander Pope. who speak well , and the other those who speak evil of him . Of the first class , the Most Noble JOHN Duke of BUCKINGHAM , fums up his character in these lines : " ( c ) And yet fso wondrous , fo fublime a thing ...
... Alexander Pope. who speak well , and the other those who speak evil of him . Of the first class , the Most Noble JOHN Duke of BUCKINGHAM , fums up his character in these lines : " ( c ) And yet fso wondrous , fo fublime a thing ...
Page 46
... speak of the person of the hero fitted for fuch poem , in truth he miferably halts and hallucinates . For , mifled by one Monfieur Bossu , a Gallic critic , he prateth of I cannot tell what phantom of a hero , only raised up to support ...
... speak of the person of the hero fitted for fuch poem , in truth he miferably halts and hallucinates . For , mifled by one Monfieur Bossu , a Gallic critic , he prateth of I cannot tell what phantom of a hero , only raised up to support ...
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... speaking , usual with poets in praise of poetry ; in which kind nothing is finer than those lines of Mr. Addison : " Sometimes , misguided by the tuneful throng , I look for streams immortaliz'd in fong , That loft in filence and ...
... speaking , usual with poets in praise of poetry ; in which kind nothing is finer than those lines of Mr. Addison : " Sometimes , misguided by the tuneful throng , I look for streams immortaliz'd in fong , That loft in filence and ...
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... speaking , used by modern crities , of a favourite author . Bays might as juftly speak thus of Fletcher , as a French wit did of Tully , seeing his works in a library , " Ah ! mon cher Ciceron ! je le connois bien ; " c'est le même que ...
... speaking , used by modern crities , of a favourite author . Bays might as juftly speak thus of Fletcher , as a French wit did of Tully , seeing his works in a library , " Ah ! mon cher Ciceron ! je le connois bien ; " c'est le même que ...
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