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 v
... character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it annihi- lates the credit of the accufation with the just and impartial , yet aggravates very ...
... character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it annihi- lates the credit of the accufation with the just and impartial , yet aggravates very ...
Page vi
... character ) but the honeft , open , and beneficent man , that we most esteemed , and loved in him . Now , if what thefe people fay were believed , I must appear to all my friends either a fool , or a knave ; either im- pofed on myself ...
... character ) but the honeft , open , and beneficent man , that we most esteemed , and loved in him . Now , if what thefe people fay were believed , I must appear to all my friends either a fool , or a knave ; either im- pofed on myself ...
Page ix
... characters were too facred for Satire ; and the pub- lic objecting on the other , that they are too mean even for ridicule ? But whether Bread or Fame be their end , it must be allowed , our author , by and in this Poem , has mercifully ...
... characters were too facred for Satire ; and the pub- lic objecting on the other , that they are too mean even for ridicule ? But whether Bread or Fame be their end , it must be allowed , our author , by and in this Poem , has mercifully ...
Page xii
... character of our English Poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of Fortune or Success , he has lived with the Great without flattery ; been a friend to Men in power , without pensions , from whom , as he afked , fo he ...
... character of our English Poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of Fortune or Success , he has lived with the Great without flattery ; been a friend to Men in power , without pensions , from whom , as he afked , fo he ...
Page xvii
... CHARACTER of Mr. P. 1716 . THE Perfons whom Boileau has attacked in his writings , have been for the most part Authors , and most of thofe Authors , Poets : And the cen- fures he hath paffed upon them have been con- firmed by all Europe ...
... CHARACTER of Mr. P. 1716 . THE Perfons whom Boileau has attacked in his writings , have been for the most part Authors , and most of thofe Authors , Poets : And the cen- fures he hath paffed upon them have been con- firmed by all Europe ...
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