The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, 3. köideC. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... gives , as it were , senti- ment to the groves . Which it is the very object of Poetry to do . Mr. Wakefield's remark on this passage is perhaps more judicious , and is expressed with becoming delicacy . " There is a levity in this ...
... gives , as it were , senti- ment to the groves . Which it is the very object of Poetry to do . Mr. Wakefield's remark on this passage is perhaps more judicious , and is expressed with becoming delicacy . " There is a levity in this ...
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... give him an hundred crowns for this burial - place . Except the former con- quest of England by the Saxons , ( says Hume , vol . 1. ) who were induced , by peculiar circumstances , to proceed even to the exter- mination of the natives ...
... give him an hundred crowns for this burial - place . Except the former con- quest of England by the Saxons , ( says Hume , vol . 1. ) who were induced , by peculiar circumstances , to proceed even to the exter- mination of the natives ...
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... gives . No seas so rich , so gay no banks appear , No lake so gentle , and no spring so clear . Nor Po so swells the fabling Poet's lays , While led along the skies his current strays , As thine , which visits Windsor's fam'd abodes ...
... gives . No seas so rich , so gay no banks appear , No lake so gentle , and no spring so clear . Nor Po so swells the fabling Poet's lays , While led along the skies his current strays , As thine , which visits Windsor's fam'd abodes ...
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... gives . No seas so rich , so gay no banks appear , No lake so gentle , and no spring so clear . Nor Po so swells the fabling Poet's lays , While led along the skies his current strays , As thine , which visits Windsor's fam'd abodes ...
... gives . No seas so rich , so gay no banks appear , No lake so gentle , and no spring so clear . Nor Po so swells the fabling Poet's lays , While led along the skies his current strays , As thine , which visits Windsor's fam'd abodes ...
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... give it a meaning which it otherwise had not . To these observations it might perhaps be sufficient to reply , that although the Essay on Criticism is not professedly written on a regular plan , yet it cannot be denied that a certain ...
... give it a meaning which it otherwise had not . To these observations it might perhaps be sufficient to reply , that although the Essay on Criticism is not professedly written on a regular plan , yet it cannot be denied that a certain ...
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