The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... raised some thousands of pounds for the fame . " I believe the gentleman did not share in the profits " of this extravagant fubfcription . " After the Iliad he undertook ( faith MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 , 1728 ) " the sequel of that work ...
... raised some thousands of pounds for the fame . " I believe the gentleman did not share in the profits " of this extravagant fubfcription . " After the Iliad he undertook ( faith MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 , 1728 ) " the sequel of that work ...
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... raised this author from obfcurity , * obtained him the acquaintance and friendship of " the whole body of our nobility , and transferred his ام powerful interests with those great men to this ri- " fing bard , who frequently levied by ...
... raised this author from obfcurity , * obtained him the acquaintance and friendship of " the whole body of our nobility , and transferred his ام powerful interests with those great men to this ri- " fing bard , who frequently levied by ...
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... raised up to support the fable . A putid conceit ! as if Homer and Virgil , like moderu undertakers , who frit build their house , and then seek out for a tenant , had con- trived the story of a war and a wandering , before they once ...
... raised up to support the fable . A putid conceit ! as if Homer and Virgil , like moderu undertakers , who frit build their house , and then seek out for a tenant , had con- trived the story of a war and a wandering , before they once ...
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... raise our HAPPINESS , as by OUR Os fublime ( OUR ERECT- #ED FACES ) to lift the dignity of our FORM above " them ( i ) . " All this confidered , how complete a Hero must he be , as well as how happy a man , whose rifibility lieth not ...
... raise our HAPPINESS , as by OUR Os fublime ( OUR ERECT- #ED FACES ) to lift the dignity of our FORM above " them ( i ) . " All this confidered , how complete a Hero must he be , as well as how happy a man , whose rifibility lieth not ...
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... raise another , had they not been goddess - born , and princes bred . What then did this author mean , by erecting a player in- stead of one of his patrons , ( a person " never a hero " even on the stage ( 0 ) , " ) to this dignity of ...
... raise another , had they not been goddess - born , and princes bred . What then did this author mean , by erecting a player in- stead of one of his patrons , ( a person " never a hero " even on the stage ( 0 ) , " ) to this dignity of ...
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