The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... description of the noblest kind . Inferior art the Landskip may design , And paint the purple ev'ning in the line : Her daring thought essays a higher plan ; Her hand delineates Paffion , pictures Man . And great the toil , the latent ...
... description of the noblest kind . Inferior art the Landskip may design , And paint the purple ev'ning in the line : Her daring thought essays a higher plan ; Her hand delineates Paffion , pictures Man . And great the toil , the latent ...
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... description of the Omniscience of God , and the miferable Blindness and Presumption of Man . NOTES . 1 VER . 21. Thro ' worlds unnumber'd , & c . ] Hunc cognof- cimus folummodo per Proprietates fuas & Attributa , & per sapientissimas ...
... description of the Omniscience of God , and the miferable Blindness and Presumption of Man . NOTES . 1 VER . 21. Thro ' worlds unnumber'd , & c . ] Hunc cognof- cimus folummodo per Proprietates fuas & Attributa , & per sapientissimas ...
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... description of the Godhead contains hot only the divinity of St. Paul ; but , if that will not fa- tisfy the men he writes against , the philosophy likewife of Sir Ifaac Newton . The Poet fays , " All are but parts of one stupendous ...
... description of the Godhead contains hot only the divinity of St. Paul ; but , if that will not fa- tisfy the men he writes against , the philosophy likewife of Sir Ifaac Newton . The Poet fays , " All are but parts of one stupendous ...
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... description of man for the very contrary pur- pose to what Sceptics are wont to employ fuch kind of paintings , namely , not to deter men from the search , but to excite them to the discovery of truth ; he hath , with great judgment ...
... description of man for the very contrary pur- pose to what Sceptics are wont to employ fuch kind of paintings , namely , not to deter men from the search , but to excite them to the discovery of truth ; he hath , with great judgment ...
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... description of the circle of human life return- ing into itself by a second child - hood , the Poet has with great elegance concluded his description with the fame image with which he fet out - And life's poor play is o'er . VER . 286 ...
... description of the circle of human life return- ing into itself by a second child - hood , the Poet has with great elegance concluded his description with the fame image with which he fet out - And life's poor play is o'er . VER . 286 ...
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