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 xxv
... mind of what the poet fays of " one of his heroes , That he alone rais'd and flung with " ease a weighty ftone , that two common men could " not lift from the ground ; juft fo , one fingle perfon " has performed in this tranflation ...
... mind of what the poet fays of " one of his heroes , That he alone rais'd and flung with " ease a weighty ftone , that two common men could " not lift from the ground ; juft fo , one fingle perfon " has performed in this tranflation ...
Page xxx
... mind , or having more mind than abi- lity , he contented himself to keep the faid Memoirs , and read them as his own to all his acquaintance . A no- ble person there is , into whofe company Mr. Pope once chanced to introduce him , who ...
... mind , or having more mind than abi- lity , he contented himself to keep the faid Memoirs , and read them as his own to all his acquaintance . A no- ble person there is , into whofe company Mr. Pope once chanced to introduce him , who ...
Page xxxiii
... mind to calumniate his cotemporaries , he brands “ them with some defect which is just contrary to fome " good quality , for which all their friends and their ac- quaintance commend them . He feems to have a par- " ticular pique to ...
... mind to calumniate his cotemporaries , he brands “ them with some defect which is just contrary to fome " good quality , for which all their friends and their ac- quaintance commend them . He feems to have a par- " ticular pique to ...
Page xlvi
... mind must have a Name : He finds it to be ; and he becomes of course the Hero of the poem . The Fable being thus , according to the beft exam- ple , one and entire , as contained in the Propofition ; the Machinery is a continued chain ...
... mind must have a Name : He finds it to be ; and he becomes of course the Hero of the poem . The Fable being thus , according to the beft exam- ple , one and entire , as contained in the Propofition ; the Machinery is a continued chain ...
Page 70
... mind . REMARKS . 15 VER . 12. Daughter of Chaos & c . ] The beauty of the whole Allegory being purely of the poetical kind , we think it not our proper bufinefs , as a Scholiaft , to meddle with it : But leave it ( as we fhall in ...
... mind . REMARKS . 15 VER . 12. Daughter of Chaos & c . ] The beauty of the whole Allegory being purely of the poetical kind , we think it not our proper bufinefs , as a Scholiaft , to meddle with it : But leave it ( as we fhall in ...
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