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, 5. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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Page xxi
... shall defer writing the life of our Poet , ' till authors can determine among themselves what Parents or Education he had , or whether he had any Education or Parents at all . Proceed we to what is more certain , his Works , tho ' not ...
... shall defer writing the life of our Poet , ' till authors can determine among themselves what Parents or Education he had , or whether he had any Education or Parents at all . Proceed we to what is more certain , his Works , tho ' not ...
Page xxxiv
... shall feem good . Sure it is , he is little favoured of certain authors , whose wrath is perilous : For one declares he ought to have a price fet on his head , and to be hunted down as a wild beaft h . Another protefts that he does not ...
... shall feem good . Sure it is , he is little favoured of certain authors , whose wrath is perilous : For one declares he ought to have a price fet on his head , and to be hunted down as a wild beaft h . Another protefts that he does not ...
Page lix
... shall ever part them . " Nature ( faith he ) hath amply fupplied me in Vanity ; a pleasure which neither the " pertness of Wit , nor the gravity of Wisdom , will ever " perfuade me to part with . " Our poet had charitably endeavoured to ...
... shall ever part them . " Nature ( faith he ) hath amply fupplied me in Vanity ; a pleasure which neither the " pertness of Wit , nor the gravity of Wisdom , will ever " perfuade me to part with . " Our poet had charitably endeavoured to ...
Page 66
... shall have any esteem ❝ for the remains of Menander and Philemon . " THEOBALD . This is furely a flip in the learned author of the foregoing note ; there having been fince produced by an accurate Anti- quary , an Autograph of ...
... shall have any esteem ❝ for the remains of Menander and Philemon . " THEOBALD . This is furely a flip in the learned author of the foregoing note ; there having been fince produced by an accurate Anti- quary , an Autograph of ...
Page 67
... shall not amend this error in the Title itself , but only note it obiter , to evince to the learned that it was not our fault , nor any effect of our ignorance or inat → SCRIBLERUS . In the next year tention . This Poem was written in ...
... shall not amend this error in the Title itself , but only note it obiter , to evince to the learned that it was not our fault , nor any effect of our ignorance or inat → SCRIBLERUS . In the next year tention . This Poem was written in ...
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