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
... these Authors had been ( doubtless very wifely ) the first aggreffors , They had tried , ' till they were weary , what was to be got by railing at each other : Nobody was either concerned or furprized , if this or that fcri bler was ...
... these Authors had been ( doubtless very wifely ) the first aggreffors , They had tried , ' till they were weary , what was to be got by railing at each other : Nobody was either concerned or furprized , if this or that fcri bler was ...
Page vi
... these calumnies , as he is himself . any I am no Author , and confequently not to be fufpected either of jealoufy or resentment against of the Men , of whom scarce one is known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought ...
... these calumnies , as he is himself . any I am no Author , and confequently not to be fufpected either of jealoufy or resentment against of the Men , of whom scarce one is known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought ...
Page vii
... next objection is , that these fort of authors are poor . That might be pleaded as an excuse at ⚫ Which we have done in a Lift printed in the Appendix . the Old Baily , for leffer crimes than Defamation , A 4 TO THE PUBLISHER . vii.
... next objection is , that these fort of authors are poor . That might be pleaded as an excuse at ⚫ Which we have done in a Lift printed in the Appendix . the Old Baily , for leffer crimes than Defamation , A 4 TO THE PUBLISHER . vii.
Page viii
... these offend 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 ...
... these offend 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 ...
Page ix
... these I was forry to fee in fuch company . But if , without any pro- vocation , two or three Gentlemen will fall upon one , in an affair wherein his i and reputa- tion are equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been ...
... these I was forry to fee in fuch company . But if , without any pro- vocation , two or three Gentlemen will fall upon one , in an affair wherein his i and reputa- tion are equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been ...
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