The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... persons themselves , rather than allow the objection , would forgive the fatire ; and if one could be tempt- red to afford it a ferious answer , were not all assaffi-- nates , popular insurrections , the infolence of the rabble without ...
... persons themselves , rather than allow the objection , would forgive the fatire ; and if one could be tempt- red to afford it a ferious answer , were not all assaffi-- nates , popular insurrections , the infolence of the rabble without ...
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... persons as he had familiarly known , only for fuch virtues as he had long obfer- ved in them , and only at fuch times as others cease to praife , if not begin to calumniate them ; I mean , when out of power , or out of fashion * . A ...
... persons as he had familiarly known , only for fuch virtues as he had long obfer- ved in them , and only at fuch times as others cease to praife , if not begin to calumniate them ; I mean , when out of power , or out of fashion * . A ...
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... person of universal learning , and an enlarged conversa- tion ; no man had a warmer heart for his friend , or a fincerer at- tachment to the constitution of his country . And yet , for all this , the public will not allow him to be the ...
... person of universal learning , and an enlarged conversa- tion ; no man had a warmer heart for his friend , or a fincerer at- tachment to the constitution of his country . And yet , for all this , the public will not allow him to be the ...
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... persons whom Boileau has attacked in his writings , have been for the most part authors , and most of those authors , poets : and the cenfures he hath paffed upon them , have been confirmed by all Europe . GILDON , Pref . to his NEW ...
... persons whom Boileau has attacked in his writings , have been for the most part authors , and most of those authors , poets : and the cenfures he hath paffed upon them , have been confirmed by all Europe . GILDON , Pref . to his NEW ...
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... person has performed in this tranfla- " “ tion , what I once despaired to have seen done by " the force of several masterly hands . " Indeed the " fame gentleman appears to have changed his fenti- " ment in his Effay on the art of ...
... person has performed in this tranfla- " “ tion , what I once despaired to have seen done by " the force of several masterly hands . " Indeed the " fame gentleman appears to have changed his fenti- " ment in his Effay on the art of ...
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