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
... nature , but only pu- nishing that of others . As to his Poem , those a- lone are capable of doing it justice , who , to use the words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his subject and his manner ) VETUSTIS ...
... nature , but only pu- nishing that of others . As to his Poem , those a- lone are capable of doing it justice , who , to use the words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his subject and his manner ) VETUSTIS ...
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... nature for putting the Laws in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . - -The same will hold in the republic of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to scribling pass on the World . THEOBALD , Letter to ...
... nature for putting the Laws in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . - -The same will hold in the republic of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to scribling pass on the World . THEOBALD , Letter to ...
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... Witneffes with each other , or of each with himself . Hence alfo thou wilt be enabled to draw reflections , not only of a critical , but a moral nature , by being let into many particulars of the Perfon as well as Genius , and B 2 ( xix )
... Witneffes with each other , or of each with himself . Hence alfo thou wilt be enabled to draw reflections , not only of a critical , but a moral nature , by being let into many particulars of the Perfon as well as Genius , and B 2 ( xix )
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... numbers , and concludes with faying , that " there are three poems " in our tongue of the fame nature , and each a mafter - picce in its kind ; The Effay on Tranf- -66 " lated Verfe ; the Effay on the Art of B 4 OF AUTHORS . xxiii.
... numbers , and concludes with faying , that " there are three poems " in our tongue of the fame nature , and each a mafter - picce in its kind ; The Effay on Tranf- -66 " lated Verfe ; the Effay on the Art of B 4 OF AUTHORS . xxiii.
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... nature , humanity , and magnanimity . He is " fo great a lover of falfhood , that , whenever he has " a mind to calumniate his cotemporaries , he brands “ them with some defect which is just contrary to fome " good quality , for which ...
... nature , humanity , and magnanimity . He is " fo great a lover of falfhood , that , whenever he has " a mind to calumniate his cotemporaries , he brands “ them with some defect which is just contrary to fome " good quality , for which ...
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