The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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Page iii
... Subjects of Satire are the Manners of peresent times , * 239. Decency of Expression recom- mended , 255. The different Methods in which Folly and Vice ought to be chastised , ✰ 269. The Variety of Style and Manner which these two Subjects ...
... Subjects of Satire are the Manners of peresent times , * 239. Decency of Expression recom- mended , 255. The different Methods in which Folly and Vice ought to be chastised , ✰ 269. The Variety of Style and Manner which these two Subjects ...
Page xxxii
... subject more in detail , without becoming dry and tedious ; or more poetically , without facrificing perfpicuity to ornament , without wandring from the precifion , or breaking the chain of reasoning : If any man can unite all these ...
... subject more in detail , without becoming dry and tedious ; or more poetically , without facrificing perfpicuity to ornament , without wandring from the precifion , or breaking the chain of reasoning : If any man can unite all these ...
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... Subject ; which , agreeably to the title , is an ESSAY ON MAN , or a Philofophical En- quiry into his Nature and End ... subjects of this Effay , viz . the ge- neral Order and Design of Providence ; the Conftitution of the human ...
... Subject ; which , agreeably to the title , is an ESSAY ON MAN , or a Philofophical En- quiry into his Nature and End ... subjects of this Effay , viz . the ge- neral Order and Design of Providence ; the Conftitution of the human ...
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... re- strain their mirth : And that it's crimes are so flagitious , that the most candid have feldom an opportunity , on this subject , to exercise their virtue , I. Say first , of God above , or Man 4 4 EP . I. ESSAY ON ΜΑΝ .
... re- strain their mirth : And that it's crimes are so flagitious , that the most candid have feldom an opportunity , on this subject , to exercise their virtue , I. Say first , of God above , or Man 4 4 EP . I. ESSAY ON ΜΑΝ .
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... Subject ; his End of writing ; and the Quality of bis Adversaries ; proceeds ( from 16 to 23. ) to instruct us , from whence he intends to draw his ar- guments ; namely , from the visible things of God in this system , to demonstrate ...
... Subject ; his End of writing ; and the Quality of bis Adversaries ; proceeds ( from 16 to 23. ) to instruct us , from whence he intends to draw his ar- guments ; namely , from the visible things of God in this system , to demonstrate ...
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