The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... fince not only the Authour's friends , but even strangers , appear engaged by humanity , to take some care of an orphan of so much genius and spirit , which its parent seems to have abandoned from the very beginning , and fuffered to ...
... fince not only the Authour's friends , but even strangers , appear engaged by humanity , to take some care of an orphan of so much genius and spirit , which its parent seems to have abandoned from the very beginning , and fuffered to ...
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... fince ? He has laughed , and written the DUNCIAD .. What has that faid of them ? A very ferious truth , which the public had faid before , that they were dull : And what it had no fooner faid , but they them ... selves were at great ...
... fince ? He has laughed , and written the DUNCIAD .. What has that faid of them ? A very ferious truth , which the public had faid before , that they were dull : And what it had no fooner faid , but they them ... selves were at great ...
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... fince whoever publishes , puts himself on his trial by his country . But when his moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it ...
... fince whoever publishes , puts himself on his trial by his country . But when his moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it ...
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... fince the vouchers them- felves will be fo foon and fo irrecoverably loft . You may in fome meafure prevent it by preserving at least their titles * , and discovering ( as far as you can de- pend on the truth of your information ) the ...
... fince the vouchers them- felves will be fo foon and fo irrecoverably loft . You may in fome meafure prevent it by preserving at least their titles * , and discovering ( as far as you can de- pend on the truth of your information ) the ...
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... fince nothing can be more odious than to treat a friend as they have done . But of this I cannot per- fuade myself , when I confider the constant and eter- nal averfion of all bad writers to a good one . Such 1 Such as claim a merit ...
... fince nothing can be more odious than to treat a friend as they have done . But of this I cannot per- fuade myself , when I confider the constant and eter- nal averfion of all bad writers to a good one . Such 1 Such as claim a merit ...
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