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 iv
... found this was not all : Ill fuccefs in that had transported them to Personal abuse , either of him- felf , or ( what I think he could less forgive ) of his Friends . They had called Men of virtue and ho 2 iy A LETTER.
... found this was not all : Ill fuccefs in that had transported them to Personal abuse , either of him- felf , or ( what I think he could less forgive ) of his Friends . They had called Men of virtue and ho 2 iy A LETTER.
Page viii
... less in their morals , than in their writings ; must Poverty make nonsense facred ? If so , the 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 ...
... less in their morals , than in their writings ; must Poverty make nonsense facred ? If so , the 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 ...
Page xxi
... less uncertain the judgments concerning them ; be- ginning with his ESSAY on CRITICISM , of which hear first the most antient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are falfe or trivial , or both ; his " thoughts are crude and ...
... less uncertain the judgments concerning them ; be- ginning with his ESSAY on CRITICISM , of which hear first the most antient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are falfe or trivial , or both ; his " thoughts are crude and ...
Page xxii
... less peremptory is the cenfure of our hypercritical Hiftorian Mr. OLD MIXSON . " I dare not fay any thing of the Effay on Criticism " in verfe ; but if any more curious reader has difco- " vered in it fomething new which is not in ...
... less peremptory is the cenfure of our hypercritical Hiftorian Mr. OLD MIXSON . " I dare not fay any thing of the Effay on Criticism " in verfe ; but if any more curious reader has difco- " vered in it fomething new which is not in ...
Page xliv
... less pain and oil than an imitation of the greater Epic . But poffible it is also , that , on due reflection , the maker might find it easier to paint a Charlemagne , a Brute , or a God- frey , with juft pomp and dignity heroic , than a ...
... less pain and oil than an imitation of the greater Epic . But poffible it is also , that , on due reflection , the maker might find it easier to paint a Charlemagne , a Brute , or a God- frey , with juft pomp and dignity heroic , than a ...
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