The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... procure , or even pur- chase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been filent , if either I had feen any any inclination in my friend to be serious with fuch A LETTER.
... procure , or even pur- chase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been filent , if either I had feen any any inclination in my friend to be serious with fuch A LETTER.
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... still been in : the dark , if a gentleman had not procured me ( I fup- pose from fome of themselves , for they are generally . much A 3 1 wiuch more dangerous friends than enemies ) the paf fages TO THE PUBLISHER . 5.
... still been in : the dark , if a gentleman had not procured me ( I fup- pose from fome of themselves , for they are generally . much A 3 1 wiuch more dangerous friends than enemies ) the paf fages TO THE PUBLISHER . 5.
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... still more involuntary ; nay , as much so as personal deformity . But even this will not help them . Deformity becomes an object of ridicule when a man sets up for being handfome ; and fo must dulness when he fets up for a wit . They ...
... still more involuntary ; nay , as much so as personal deformity . But even this will not help them . Deformity becomes an object of ridicule when a man sets up for being handfome ; and fo must dulness when he fets up for a wit . They ...
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... still more trite . Most of their pieces are no- “ thing but a pert , infipid heap of common place . " Horace has even in his art of poetry thrown out " several things which plainly shew , he thought an 66 66 art of poetry was of no use ...
... still more trite . Most of their pieces are no- “ thing but a pert , infipid heap of common place . " Horace has even in his art of poetry thrown out " several things which plainly shew , he thought an 66 66 art of poetry was of no use ...
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... still . more convinced of their truth and folidity . And " here give me leave to mention what Monfieur " Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface 6 " 66 " " 66 . 66 to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not " confist so ...
... still . more convinced of their truth and folidity . And " here give me leave to mention what Monfieur " Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface 6 " 66 " " 66 . 66 to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not " confist so ...
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