The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... fame who for several years past have made free with the greatest names in church and state , ex- posed to the world the private misfortunes of fami- lies , abused all , even to women , and whose profți- tuted papers ( for one or other ...
... fame who for several years past have made free with the greatest names in church and state , ex- posed to the world the private misfortunes of fami- lies , abused all , even to women , and whose profți- tuted papers ( for one or other ...
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... fame of bad authours would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter . It is not charity to encourage them in ...
... fame of bad authours would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter . It is not charity to encourage them in ...
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... fame that they were . One , therefore , of their assertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their wri ،، tings . " And there is another , which would pro- bably be fooner allowed by himself than by any good judge ...
... fame that they were . One , therefore , of their assertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their wri ،، tings . " And there is another , which would pro- bably be fooner allowed by himself than by any good judge ...
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... fame , and fortune ; in the distinctions shewn them by their fu- periours , in the general esteem of their equals , and in their extended reputation amongst foreigners ; in the latter of which ours has met with the better fate , as he ...
... fame , and fortune ; in the distinctions shewn them by their fu- periours , in the general esteem of their equals , and in their extended reputation amongst foreigners ; in the latter of which ours has met with the better fate , as he ...
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... fame will held in the republic of letters , if the critics and judges will let every ignorant pretender to scribbling pafs on the world . THEOBALD , Letter to Mist , June 22 , 1728 . Attacks may be levelled , either against failures in ...
... fame will held in the republic of letters , if the critics and judges will let every ignorant pretender to scribbling pafs on the world . THEOBALD , Letter to Mist , June 22 , 1728 . Attacks may be levelled , either against failures in ...
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