The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... pleasure I hear , that you have procured a correct copy of the DUNCIAD , which the many furreptitious ones have rendered so neceffary ; and it is yet with more , that I am informed it will be at- tended with a COMMENTARY : A work so ...
... pleasure I hear , that you have procured a correct copy of the DUNCIAD , which the many furreptitious ones have rendered so neceffary ; and it is yet with more , that I am informed it will be at- tended with a COMMENTARY : A work so ...
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... pleasure , but because it is just to un- deceive and vindicate the honest and unpretending part of mankind from imposition , because particular interest ought to yield to general , and a great num- ber who are not naturally fools ...
... pleasure , but because it is just to un- deceive and vindicate the honest and unpretending part of mankind from imposition , because particular interest ought to yield to general , and a great num- ber who are not naturally fools ...
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... pleasure it must be to every reader of humanity , to see all a- long , that our authour in his very laughter is not ins dulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As . to his poem , those alone are capable of ...
... pleasure it must be to every reader of humanity , to see all a- long , that our authour in his very laughter is not ins dulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As . to his poem , those alone are capable of ...
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... pleasure " which neither the pertness of wit , nor the gravity " of wisdom , will ever perfuade me to part with ( e ) . " Our poet had charitably endeavoured to administer a ( c ) A ftatuary . ( d ) Life , p . 6 . ( c ) P. 424 . r cure ...
... pleasure " which neither the pertness of wit , nor the gravity " of wisdom , will ever perfuade me to part with ( e ) . " Our poet had charitably endeavoured to administer a ( c ) A ftatuary . ( d ) Life , p . 6 . ( c ) P. 424 . r cure ...
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... pleasures of the court and town . This happened in the reigns of King George I. and II . See bock iit , ver . 231. etc. Ver . 4. By Dulnes , Jove , and Fate ; ] i . e . By their judgements , their interests , and their inclinations ...
... pleasures of the court and town . This happened in the reigns of King George I. and II . See bock iit , ver . 231. etc. Ver . 4. By Dulnes , Jove , and Fate ; ] i . e . By their judgements , their interests , and their inclinations ...
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