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 xiii
... sure it must be to every reader of Humanity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only pu- nishing that of others . As to his Poem , those a- lone are capable of doing it ...
... sure it must be to every reader of Humanity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only pu- nishing that of others . As to his Poem , those a- lone are capable of doing it ...
Page xxxiv
... 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 know what may ...
... 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 know what may ...
Page 145
... ( Sure fign , that no fpectator fhall be drown'd ) A fecond effort brought but new difgrace , 175 The wild Meander wash'd the Artift's face : REMARK S. " fo unhappy as to fee his works hawked for sale in a manner " fo fatal to his fame ...
... ( Sure fign , that no fpectator fhall be drown'd ) A fecond effort brought but new difgrace , 175 The wild Meander wash'd the Artift's face : REMARK S. " fo unhappy as to fee his works hawked for sale in a manner " fo fatal to his fame ...
Page 243
... tire , their inftructors contrive to make the Words jingle in rhyme or metre . VER 165 in yonder Houfe or Hall . ] Weltminfter - hall and the Houfe of Commons . Elfe sure some Bard , to our eternal praise , Q2 Book IV . THE DUNCIAD . 243.
... tire , their inftructors contrive to make the Words jingle in rhyme or metre . VER 165 in yonder Houfe or Hall . ] Weltminfter - hall and the Houfe of Commons . Elfe sure some Bard , to our eternal praise , Q2 Book IV . THE DUNCIAD . 243.
Page 244
... sure some Bard , to our eternal praise , In twice ten thousand rhyming nights and days , Had reach'd the Work , the All that mortal can ; And South beheld that Mafter - piece of Man . Oh ( cry'd the Goddess ) for some pedant Reign ...
... sure some Bard , to our eternal praise , In twice ten thousand rhyming nights and days , Had reach'd the Work , the All that mortal can ; And South beheld that Mafter - piece of Man . Oh ( cry'd the Goddess ) for some pedant Reign ...
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