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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... turn'd his azure eyes Where Windsor - domes and pompous turrets rise ; Then bow'd and spoke ; the winds forget to roar , And the hush'd waves glide softly to the shore . NOTES . Ver . 350. ] Our poet was not deterred , from the censure ...
... turn'd his azure eyes Where Windsor - domes and pompous turrets rise ; Then bow'd and spoke ; the winds forget to roar , And the hush'd waves glide softly to the shore . NOTES . Ver . 350. ] Our poet was not deterred , from the censure ...
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... turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a Rival's , or an Eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing side . If Mævius scribble in ...
... turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a Rival's , or an Eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing side . If Mævius scribble in ...
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... Turn to MICHELAGNOLO , " the sculptor , painter , poet , architect ; to Lio- NARDO DA VINCI , to RAFFAELLE , to SALVATOR ROSA , -men who have devoted themselves to different branches of science and of art , and who have excelled in ...
... Turn to MICHELAGNOLO , " the sculptor , painter , poet , architect ; to Lio- NARDO DA VINCI , to RAFFAELLE , to SALVATOR ROSA , -men who have devoted themselves to different branches of science and of art , and who have excelled in ...
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... turn it to its use ; COMMENTARY . but in the last , we are bid to consider it but as a mere outward garb , fitted only to hide the defects of a mis - shapen one . As to Wit , it might perhaps be imagined that this needed only Judgment ...
... turn it to its use ; COMMENTARY . but in the last , we are bid to consider it but as a mere outward garb , fitted only to hide the defects of a mis - shapen one . As to Wit , it might perhaps be imagined that this needed only Judgment ...
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... turn it to its use . But then the alteration , in the preceding line , from - store of wit , to profuse , was an unlucky change . For though he who has store of wit may want more , yet he to whom it was given in profusion could hardly ...
... turn it to its use . But then the alteration , in the preceding line , from - store of wit , to profuse , was an unlucky change . For though he who has store of wit may want more , yet he to whom it was given in profusion could hardly ...
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