The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... feen Virtue in the faithful line With modeft joy furveys her form divine . 460 But oh , what thoughts , what numbers fhall I find , But faintly to exprefs , the Poet's mind ! Who yonder Star's effulgence can display , Unless he dip Part ...
... feen Virtue in the faithful line With modeft joy furveys her form divine . 460 But oh , what thoughts , what numbers fhall I find , But faintly to exprefs , the Poet's mind ! Who yonder Star's effulgence can display , Unless he dip Part ...
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... feen to be the most logical fupport of all that had preceded . For the poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epistle to prove , that every thing in the Uni- verfe tends , by a forefeen contrivance , and a prefent di- rection of ...
... feen to be the most logical fupport of all that had preceded . For the poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epistle to prove , that every thing in the Uni- verfe tends , by a forefeen contrivance , and a prefent di- rection of ...
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... feen in this fyftem : Lays down this Propofition , That of all poffible fyflems , infinite Wisdom has form'd the beft : draws from thence two Confequences , 1. That there must needs be fomewhere fuch a creature as Man ; 2. That the ...
... feen in this fyftem : Lays down this Propofition , That of all poffible fyflems , infinite Wisdom has form'd the beft : draws from thence two Confequences , 1. That there must needs be fomewhere fuch a creature as Man ; 2. That the ...
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... feen that it was a conclufion from the general principle above- mentioned , and therefore must neceffarily have another meaning . But what must we think of him , when the All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; EP . I. 41 ESSAY ON MA N.
... feen that it was a conclufion from the general principle above- mentioned , and therefore must neceffarily have another meaning . But what must we think of him , when the All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; EP . I. 41 ESSAY ON MA N.
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... feen ; COMME ENTARY . 210 215 209 to is neither vice nor virtue , the Poet fhews ( from 217. ) would be juft as wife as to fay , there is neither black nor white ; because the fhade of that and the light of this often run into one ...
... feen ; COMME ENTARY . 210 215 209 to is neither vice nor virtue , the Poet fhews ( from 217. ) would be juft as wife as to fay , there is neither black nor white ; because the fhade of that and the light of this often run into one ...
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