The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... must appear to all my friends either a fool or a knave ; either imposed on myself , or im- posing on them ; fo that I am as much interested in the confutation of these calumnies , as he is himself . I am no authour , and confequently ...
... must appear to all my friends either a fool or a knave ; either imposed on myself , or im- posing on them ; fo that I am as much interested in the confutation of these calumnies , as he is himself . I am no authour , and confequently ...
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... must be allowed , our authour , by and in this poem , has mercifully given them a little of both . There are two or three , who by their rank and fortune have no benefit from the former objections , fuppofing them good ; and these I was ...
... must be allowed , our authour , by and in this poem , has mercifully given them a little of both . There are two or three , who by their rank and fortune have no benefit from the former objections , fuppofing them good ; and these I was ...
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... must dulness when he fets up for a wit . They are not ridiculed , because ridicule in itself is , or ought to be , a pleasure , but because it is just to un- deceive and vindicate the honest and unpretending part of mankind from ...
... must dulness when he fets up for a wit . They are not ridiculed , because ridicule in itself is , or ought to be , a pleasure , but because it is just to un- deceive and vindicate the honest and unpretending part of mankind from ...
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... must be allowed to think the cha- racter of our English poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of fortune or success ; he has lived with the great without flattery ; been a friend to men in power , without penfions , from ...
... must be allowed to think the cha- racter of our English poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of fortune or success ; he has lived with the great without flattery ; been a friend to men in power , without penfions , from ...
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... must afssent to , " when he sees them explained with that ease and “ " ( p ) Effay on Criticism in profe , octavo , 1728 , by the author of the Critical History of England . ( 9 ) Preface to his poems , p . 18 , 53. ( r ) Spectator , No ...
... must afssent to , " when he sees them explained with that ease and “ " ( p ) Effay on Criticism in profe , octavo , 1728 , by the author of the Critical History of England . ( 9 ) Preface to his poems , p . 18 , 53. ( r ) Spectator , No ...
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