The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... reason many persons have chosen to publish their works without a name , and by this method , like Apelles , who stood unseen behind his own Venus , have received a praise , which perhaps might have been denied if the author had been ...
... reason many persons have chosen to publish their works without a name , and by this method , like Apelles , who stood unseen behind his own Venus , have received a praise , which perhaps might have been denied if the author had been ...
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... reason to enlarge the argument for candour in criti- cism , through a consciousness of my own deficiency : I have in reality been pleading my own cause , that , if I appear too guilty to obtain a pardon , I may find so much mercy from ...
... reason to enlarge the argument for candour in criti- cism , through a consciousness of my own deficiency : I have in reality been pleading my own cause , that , if I appear too guilty to obtain a pardon , I may find so much mercy from ...
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... reason , by his will betray'd ! Blindly he wanders in pursuit of Vice , And hates confinement , though in Paradise ; Doom'd , when enlarg'd , instead of Eden's bowers , To rove in wilds , and gather thorns for flowers ; Between th ...
... reason , by his will betray'd ! Blindly he wanders in pursuit of Vice , And hates confinement , though in Paradise ; Doom'd , when enlarg'd , instead of Eden's bowers , To rove in wilds , and gather thorns for flowers ; Between th ...
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... reason fondly we believe , Assist the fraud , and teach it to deceive : As the faint traveller , when Night invades , Sees a false light relieve the ambient shades , Pleas'd he beholds the bright delusion play , But the false guide ...
... reason fondly we believe , Assist the fraud , and teach it to deceive : As the faint traveller , when Night invades , Sees a false light relieve the ambient shades , Pleas'd he beholds the bright delusion play , But the false guide ...
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... reason to believe , that Addison gave no encouragement to this disin- genuous hostility ; for , says Pope , in a letter to him , " indeed your opinion , that ' tis entirely to be neglected , would be my own in my own case ; but I felt ...
... reason to believe , that Addison gave no encouragement to this disin- genuous hostility ; for , says Pope , in a letter to him , " indeed your opinion , that ' tis entirely to be neglected , would be my own in my own case ; but I felt ...
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