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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... poets who fucceeded him : the temper of critics . II . From Mr. Wycherley . III . Mr. Wycherley's humanity ; his encourage- ment of young writers ; concerning the Author's Paftorals . IV . From Mr. Wycherley : Anfwer to the former . V ...
... poets who fucceeded him : the temper of critics . II . From Mr. Wycherley . III . Mr. Wycherley's humanity ; his encourage- ment of young writers ; concerning the Author's Paftorals . IV . From Mr. Wycherley : Anfwer to the former . V ...
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... poets . XX . From Mr. Wycherley . XXI . From Mr. Wycherley , XXII . From Mr. Wycherley . His defire of bis company ; and request to proceed in cor- recting his papers . XXIII . More about the poems . XXIV . Corrections fent . XXV . From ...
... poets . XX . From Mr. Wycherley . XXI . From Mr. Wycherley , XXII . From Mr. Wycherley . His defire of bis company ; and request to proceed in cor- recting his papers . XXIII . More about the poems . XXIV . Corrections fent . XXV . From ...
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... . But , his Effay was I am , & c . not our young poet's taste . He had met with it early ; but he used to say , he had then no relish for it . B 3 LET- I LETTER II . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . Jan. FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 5.
... . But , his Effay was I am , & c . not our young poet's taste . He had met with it early ; but he used to say , he had then no relish for it . B 3 LET- I LETTER II . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . Jan. FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 5.
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... Poets , are once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and fecure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which indeed , for the moft part , is all that is fed in a poet . You may ...
... Poets , are once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and fecure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which indeed , for the moft part , is all that is fed in a poet . You may ...
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... poet and a physician . 24 1 A ་ Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excuse me , I must ( I see ) fay no more upon this subject , fince I find ...
... poet and a physician . 24 1 A ་ Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excuse me , I must ( I see ) fay no more upon this subject , fince I find ...
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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.