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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Page 31
... mind of Inigo , ever produce so much sameness . The strange kind of cherubims on the towers at the end are preposterous ornaments , and whether of Inigo or not , bear no relation to the rest . The great towers in the front are too near ...
... mind of Inigo , ever produce so much sameness . The strange kind of cherubims on the towers at the end are preposterous ornaments , and whether of Inigo or not , bear no relation to the rest . The great towers in the front are too near ...
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... mind : 20 COMMENTARY . Ver . 19. Yet if we look , & c . ] But the Author having been thus free with the fundamental ... minds of most men , but by ill culture , as it springs up , it generally runs wild either on the one hand , by FALSE ...
... mind : 20 COMMENTARY . Ver . 19. Yet if we look , & c . ] But the Author having been thus free with the fundamental ... minds of most men , but by ill culture , as it springs up , it generally runs wild either on the one hand , by FALSE ...
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... mind an idea of general excellence , which enables him to give a more impartial , and perhaps a more correct opinion , than a professor in any particular department . Accordingly , experience has shewn , that the most eminent critics in ...
... mind an idea of general excellence , which enables him to give a more impartial , and perhaps a more correct opinion , than a professor in any particular department . Accordingly , experience has shewn , that the most eminent critics in ...
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... mind ; which has , indeed , been often displayed in great perfection by mere idiots . For , it is difficult to conceive how the faculty of judg- ment , which consists in the comparison of different ideas , can at all be exercised ...
... mind ; which has , indeed , been often displayed in great perfection by mere idiots . For , it is difficult to conceive how the faculty of judg- ment , which consists in the comparison of different ideas , can at all be exercised ...
Page 57
... mind loses , on the one hand , what it acquires on the other , " Like kings who lose the conquests gain'd before , " it might be with more truth asserted , that every new acquisition strengthens those we already possess , and that the mind ...
... mind loses , on the one hand , what it acquires on the other , " Like kings who lose the conquests gain'd before , " it might be with more truth asserted , that every new acquisition strengthens those we already possess , and that the mind ...
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