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 ix
... equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , complain of being put into the number of them . Others , I am told , pretend to have been once his Friends . Surely they are their ...
... equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , complain of being put into the number of them . Others , I am told , pretend to have been once his Friends . Surely they are their ...
Page x
... equally fubfifting , for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were . One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writ- ' ings . " And there is another , which would pro ...
... equally fubfifting , for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were . One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writ- ' ings . " And there is another , which would pro ...
Page xii
... equally abused by the ignorant pretenders to Poetry of their times ; of which not the leaft memory will remain but in their own Writings , and in the Notes made upon them . What BOILEAU has done in almost all his Poems , our author has ...
... equally abused by the ignorant pretenders to Poetry of their times ; of which not the leaft memory will remain but in their own Writings , and in the Notes made upon them . What BOILEAU has done in almost all his Poems , our author has ...
Page xlii
... equally been fuppofed in him inherent . Surely a most rare and sin- gular character ! Of which let the reader make what he can . Doubtless most Commentators would hence take oc- cafion to turn all to their Author's advantage , and from ...
... equally been fuppofed in him inherent . Surely a most rare and sin- gular character ! Of which let the reader make what he can . Doubtless most Commentators would hence take oc- cafion to turn all to their Author's advantage , and from ...
Page 77
... equally the difgrace of human Wit , Morality , and Common Senfe . P. W. VER . 43. Sepulchral Lies , ] Is a just satire on the Flatteries and Falfhoods admitted to be infcribed on the walls of Churches , in Epitaphs ; which occafioned ...
... equally the difgrace of human Wit , Morality , and Common Senfe . P. W. VER . 43. Sepulchral Lies , ] Is a just satire on the Flatteries and Falfhoods admitted to be infcribed on the walls of Churches , in Epitaphs ; which occafioned ...
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