The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... present thee with our exercitations BEFORE on this most delectable poem ( drawn from the many volumes of our adversaria on modern authors ) we shall here , according to the laudable usage of e- ditors , collect the various judgements of ...
... present thee with our exercitations BEFORE on this most delectable poem ( drawn from the many volumes of our adversaria on modern authors ) we shall here , according to the laudable usage of e- ditors , collect the various judgements of ...
Page 67
... present thee with ano- ther " conjectural emendation on Virgil's scopulis pendentibus . " * He is here describing a place , whither the weary mariners of ¯neas repaired to dress their dinner .- " Feffi - frugesque receptas et tor- rere ...
... present thee with ano- ther " conjectural emendation on Virgil's scopulis pendentibus . " * He is here describing a place , whither the weary mariners of ¯neas repaired to dress their dinner .- " Feffi - frugesque receptas et tor- rere ...
Page 69
... presents th ' approaching jail : Poetic Justice , with her lifted scale , Where , in nice balance , truth with gold she weighs , And folid pudding against empty praise . 55 Here she beholds the Chaos dark and deep , Where nameless ...
... presents th ' approaching jail : Poetic Justice , with her lifted scale , Where , in nice balance , truth with gold she weighs , And folid pudding against empty praise . 55 Here she beholds the Chaos dark and deep , Where nameless ...
Page 75
... present dispute , steps back a thousand years to call in the " fuccour of the ancients . His very panegyric is spiteful , and he " ufes it for the same reason as some ladies do their commenda- " tions of a dead beauty , who would never ...
... present dispute , steps back a thousand years to call in the " fuccour of the ancients . His very panegyric is spiteful , and he " ufes it for the same reason as some ladies do their commenda- " tions of a dead beauty , who would never ...
Page 82
... present booke . In whiche " booke I had grete playsyr , by cause of the fayr and honest " termes and wordes in Frenche , whiche I never fawe to fore " lyke , ne none so playsant ne so well ordred ; whiche book , ८ " as me semed shold ...
... present booke . In whiche " booke I had grete playsyr , by cause of the fayr and honest " termes and wordes in Frenche , whiche I never fawe to fore " lyke , ne none so playsant ne so well ordred ; whiche book , ८ " as me semed shold ...
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