The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... persons in this passage , is their fuppofing the comparifon to be between the effects of two things in this fublunary world ; when not only the elegancy , but the justness of it , consists in its being between the effects of a thing in ...
... persons in this passage , is their fuppofing the comparifon to be between the effects of two things in this fublunary world ; when not only the elegancy , but the justness of it , consists in its being between the effects of a thing in ...
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... . " For all that , we sometimes find in persons of the lowest rank , a fund of probity and re- " fignation which preserves them from contempt ; their 66 To him no high , no low , no great E3 Ер . І. 37 ESSAY ON ΜΑΝ .
... . " For all that , we sometimes find in persons of the lowest rank , a fund of probity and re- " fignation which preserves them from contempt ; their 66 To him no high , no low , no great E3 Ер . І. 37 ESSAY ON ΜΑΝ .
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... persons , though accompanied with their possessions : and this the Poet il- lustrates by examples . 3. That even the possession of them all together , where they have excluded virtue , only terminates in more enor- mous mifery . NOTES ...
... persons , though accompanied with their possessions : and this the Poet il- lustrates by examples . 3. That even the possession of them all together , where they have excluded virtue , only terminates in more enor- mous mifery . NOTES ...
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... person who shewed me the place , pointing to a plain stone ) " " 66 was the monument of the Great TEAGUE , king of Ire- " land . I had never heard of him , and could not but " reflect of how little value is Greatness , that has barely ...
... person who shewed me the place , pointing to a plain stone ) " " 66 was the monument of the Great TEAGUE , king of Ire- " land . I had never heard of him , and could not but " reflect of how little value is Greatness , that has barely ...
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... persons , says he , " have conjectured that Mr. Pope did not compose this Effay at once , and in a regular order ; but that after " he had wrote several fragments of poetry , all finished " in their kind ( one , for example , on the ...
... persons , says he , " have conjectured that Mr. Pope did not compose this Effay at once , and in a regular order ; but that after " he had wrote several fragments of poetry , all finished " in their kind ( one , for example , on the ...
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