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 vi
... fame who for feveral years paft have made free with the greatest names in Church and State , exposed to the world the private misfortunes of Families , abused all , even to women , and whose prostituted papers ( for one or other Party ...
... fame who for feveral years paft have made free with the greatest names in Church and State , exposed to the world the private misfortunes of Families , abused all , even to women , and whose prostituted papers ( for one or other Party ...
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... fame of bad au- thors would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : It is not cha- rity to encourage them ...
... fame of bad au- thors would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : It is not cha- rity to encourage them ...
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... Fame be their end , it must be allowed , our author , by and in this Poem , has mercifully given them a little of both . There are two or three , who by their rank and fortune have no benefit from the former objecti ons , fuppofing them ...
... Fame be their end , it must be allowed , our author , by and in this Poem , has mercifully given them a little of both . There are two or three , who by their rank and fortune have no benefit from the former objecti ons , fuppofing them ...
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... 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- bably be sooner allowed by himself than by any good judge ...
... 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- bably be sooner allowed by himself than by any good judge ...
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... Fame , and Fortune ; in the distinctions fhewn them by their Superiors , in the general esteem of their Equals , and in their extended reputation a- mongst Foreigners ; in the latter of which ours has met with the better fate , as he ...
... Fame , and Fortune ; in the distinctions fhewn them by their Superiors , in the general esteem of their Equals , and in their extended reputation a- mongst Foreigners ; in the latter of which ours has met with the better fate , as he ...
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