The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 7. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... sense would have published himself . The errors of the prefs were almost innumerable , and could not but be extremely multiplied in fo many repeated editions , by the avarice and negligence of piratical printers , to not one of whom he ...
... sense would have published himself . The errors of the prefs were almost innumerable , and could not but be extremely multiplied in fo many repeated editions , by the avarice and negligence of piratical printers , to not one of whom he ...
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... sense with fo much more of yours , that I am disparaged and disheartened by your commendations ; who give me an example of your wit in the first part your letter , and a definition of it in the laft ; to make writing well ( that is ...
... sense with fo much more of yours , that I am disparaged and disheartened by your commendations ; who give me an example of your wit in the first part your letter , and a definition of it in the laft ; to make writing well ( that is ...
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... sense , nor pretend to any , but enjoy a jovial fort of dulness : They are com- monly known in the world by the name of honest , civil gentlemen : They live , much as they ride , at random ; a kind of hunting life , pursuing with ...
... sense , nor pretend to any , but enjoy a jovial fort of dulness : They are com- monly known in the world by the name of honest , civil gentlemen : They live , much as they ride , at random ; a kind of hunting life , pursuing with ...
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... sense , and correcting them both with your genius , or judgment ; I must tell you , I always own it ( in spite of your unpoetic modefty ) who would do with your friendship as your charity ; conceal your bounty to magnify the obligation ...
... sense , and correcting them both with your genius , or judgment ; I must tell you , I always own it ( in spite of your unpoetic modefty ) who would do with your friendship as your charity ; conceal your bounty to magnify the obligation ...
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... sense or poetry , are admirers of yours ; and like your part of the book fo well , that the reft is lik'd the worse . This is true upon my word , without compli- D 4 compliment ; fo that your first fuccefs will make you FROM MR ...
... sense or poetry , are admirers of yours ; and like your part of the book fo well , that the reft is lik'd the worse . This is true upon my word , without compli- D 4 compliment ; fo that your first fuccefs will make you FROM MR ...
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Page 252 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Page 339 - Lucretius to publish against Tonson's ; agreeing to pay the author so many shillings at his producing so many lines. He made a great progress in a very short time, and I gave it to the corrector to compare with the Latin; but he went directly to Creech's translation, and found it the same word for word, all but the first page. Now, what d'ye think I did ? I arrested the translator for a cheat ; nay, and I stopped the corrector's pay too, upon this proof that he had made use of Creech instead of the...
Page 337 - As Mr. Lintot was talking, I observed he sat uneasy on his saddle, for which I expressed some solicitude : Nothing, says he, I can bear it well enough ; but since we have the day before us, methinks it would be very pleasant for you to rest awhile under the woods.
Page 294 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Page 95 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 327 - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much strangers to revenge, as they are to avarice and ambition, they might in fact answer the poetical notions of ,the golden age.
Page 252 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Page 100 - Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends...
Page 255 - ... included of his belief in its immortality. The diminutive epithets of vagula, blandula...
Page 338 - I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.