The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... heroes , That he alone rai- " sed and flung with ease a weighty stone , that two common men could not lift from the ground : just " so , one single person has performed in this tranfla- " “ tion , what I once despaired to have seen done ...
... heroes , That he alone rai- " sed and flung with ease a weighty stone , that two common men could not lift from the ground : just " so , one single person has performed in this tranfla- " “ tion , what I once despaired to have seen done ...
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... hero , or chief perfonage of it was no less obfcure , and his understanding and sentiments no lefs quaint and strange ( if indeed not more fo ) than any of the actors of our poem .. MARGITES was the name of this perfonage , whom ...
... hero , or chief perfonage of it was no less obfcure , and his understanding and sentiments no lefs quaint and strange ( if indeed not more fo ) than any of the actors of our poem .. MARGITES was the name of this perfonage , whom ...
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... Hero of the poem . The fable being thus , according to the best exam- ple , one and entire , as contained in the proposition ; the machinery is a continued chain of allegories , fet- Live ( b ) Boffu , chap . vii . ( c ) Book I. ver ...
... Hero of the poem . The fable being thus , according to the best exam- ple , one and entire , as contained in the proposition ; the machinery is a continued chain of allegories , fet- Live ( b ) Boffu , chap . vii . ( c ) Book I. ver ...
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... our author chuse to write his essay on that subject at twenty , and referve for his maturer years this great and wonderful work of the Dunciad . ( k ) See bis Effays , RI- [ 46 ] RICHARDUS ARISTARCHUS OF THE HERO OF THE OF THE РОЕМ . 45.
... our author chuse to write his essay on that subject at twenty , and referve for his maturer years this great and wonderful work of the Dunciad . ( k ) See bis Effays , RI- [ 46 ] RICHARDUS ARISTARCHUS OF THE HERO OF THE OF THE РОЕМ . 45.
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... 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 the fable . A putid conceit ...
... 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 the fable . A putid conceit ...
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