The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 7. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... please him , the thanks are not due to the author , but partly to his friends , and partly to his enemies : it was wholly owing to the affection of the for- mer , that fo many Letters , of which he never kept copies , were preferv'd ...
... please him , the thanks are not due to the author , but partly to his friends , and partly to his enemies : it was wholly owing to the affection of the for- mer , that fo many Letters , of which he never kept copies , were preferv'd ...
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... please myself ) I must no more offend , than I can do either right . Therefore I will fay no more now of them , than that your good wit never forfeited your good judgment , but in your partiality to me and mine ; fo that if it were ...
... please myself ) I must no more offend , than I can do either right . Therefore I will fay no more now of them , than that your good wit never forfeited your good judgment , but in your partiality to me and mine ; fo that if it were ...
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... faying he will not episcopate ; but I must confefs , whilft I displease you by commending you , I please myself : just as incense is sweeter to the offerer than than the deity to whom ' tis offered , by FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . II.
... faying he will not episcopate ; but I must confefs , whilft I displease you by commending you , I please myself : just as incense is sweeter to the offerer than than the deity to whom ' tis offered , by FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . II.
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... please the young one ; and the young man more discreet and prudent by the help of the old one ; fo it may prove a cure of thofe epidemical diseases of age and youth , fourness and madness . I hope you will not need many arguments to ...
... please the young one ; and the young man more discreet and prudent by the help of the old one ; fo it may prove a cure of thofe epidemical diseases of age and youth , fourness and madness . I hope you will not need many arguments to ...
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... please them as well as they can ; so when those incorrigible things , Poets , are once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and secure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which ...
... please them as well as they can ; so when those incorrigible things , Poets , are once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and secure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which ...
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