The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... honours of my life , and a much greater respect to truth , than to him or to any man living , engaged me in ... honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers : And fome had been fuch ...
... honours of my life , and a much greater respect to truth , than to him or to any man living , engaged me in ... honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers : And fome had been fuch ...
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... honour , not to have written a line of any man , which , through guilt , through shame , or through fear , through variety of fortune , or change of interests , he was ever unwilling to own . I shall conclude with remarking , what a ...
... honour , not to have written a line of any man , which , through guilt , through shame , or through fear , through variety of fortune , or change of interests , he was ever unwilling to own . I shall conclude with remarking , what a ...
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... honoured commands for the fame ; and that they are introduced , not as witnesses in the con- troverfy , but as witnesses that cannot be controvert- ed ; not to dispute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers into two ...
... honoured commands for the fame ; and that they are introduced , not as witnesses in the con- troverfy , but as witnesses that cannot be controvert- ed ; not to dispute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers into two ...
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... that brings honour to the critic who advances it ; and Dr. Bentley will be remembered to " posterity for his performances of this fort , as long as the world VOL . III . F 5 You by whose care , in vain decry'd and [ 61 ] Воок І.
... that brings honour to the critic who advances it ; and Dr. Bentley will be remembered to " posterity for his performances of this fort , as long as the world VOL . III . F 5 You by whose care , in vain decry'd and [ 61 ] Воок І.
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... honour of the laurel . It appears as plainly from the apoftropbe to the great in the third verfe , that Tibbald could not be the perfon , who was never an author in fashion , or caressed by the great : Whereas this fingle characteristic ...
... honour of the laurel . It appears as plainly from the apoftropbe to the great in the third verfe , that Tibbald could not be the perfon , who was never an author in fashion , or caressed by the great : Whereas this fingle characteristic ...
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