The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... laft , and , I will venture to fay , they have lefs fharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the practice , more than ad- vanced the theory , of Morality . If I could flatter myself that this ...
... laft , and , I will venture to fay , they have lefs fharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the practice , more than ad- vanced the theory , of Morality . If I could flatter myself that this ...
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... laft , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to fhed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n : Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish ...
... laft , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to fhed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n : Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish ...
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... laft effort of the imagination to poetical perfection ; and , in this compounded excellence , the Wit receives a dignity from the Sublime ; and the Sublime a Splendor from the Wit ; which , in their state of feparate existence , they ...
... laft effort of the imagination to poetical perfection ; and , in this compounded excellence , the Wit receives a dignity from the Sublime ; and the Sublime a Splendor from the Wit ; which , in their state of feparate existence , they ...
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... laft place ( from 260 to the end ) to fhew their ufe to the Individual , even in their illu- fions ; the imaginary happiness they prefent , helping to make the real miferies of life lefs infupportable : And this is his third general ...
... laft place ( from 260 to the end ) to fhew their ufe to the Individual , even in their illu- fions ; the imaginary happiness they prefent , helping to make the real miferies of life lefs infupportable : And this is his third general ...
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... laft of them ; and , what is worse , for the fake of a foolish antithefis , hath deftroyed the whole propriety of the thought in the two firft : and fo between both , hath left his Author neither fenfe nor fyftem . " Dans le fein du ...
... laft of them ; and , what is worse , for the fake of a foolish antithefis , hath deftroyed the whole propriety of the thought in the two firft : and fo between both , hath left his Author neither fenfe nor fyftem . " Dans le fein du ...
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