The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 4. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... ftupidity of the monks might appear the more tolerable evil . 7. Argyropylus , a mercenary Greek , who came to teach fchool in Italy , after the facking of Conftantinople by the Turks , Each wight , who reads not , and but scans 20 ...
... ftupidity of the monks might appear the more tolerable evil . 7. Argyropylus , a mercenary Greek , who came to teach fchool in Italy , after the facking of Conftantinople by the Turks , Each wight , who reads not , and but scans 20 ...
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... appear , And strains from hard - bound brains , eight lines a year ; He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left : 184 And He , who now to fenfe , now nonfenfe leaning , Means ...
... appear , And strains from hard - bound brains , eight lines a year ; He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left : 184 And He , who now to fenfe , now nonfenfe leaning , Means ...
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... appear very great , if we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagi- nation could give to a great Genius , M.Voltaire , in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from England to a friend in ...
... appear very great , if we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagi- nation could give to a great Genius , M.Voltaire , in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from England to a friend in ...
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... appears to have had great talents for this fpecies of moral poetry ; but , unluckily , he feem'd neither to understand nor attend to it . Ibid . But ftoop'd to Truth ] The term is from falconry ; and the allufion to one of those untamed ...
... appears to have had great talents for this fpecies of moral poetry ; but , unluckily , he feem'd neither to understand nor attend to it . Ibid . But ftoop'd to Truth ] The term is from falconry ; and the allufion to one of those untamed ...
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... appear odd , that those who come from the fame Egg fhould have tempers and pursuits directly contrary ; yet there is nothing ftrange , that two Brothers , alike in all things elfe , fhould have different amusements . VER . 52. As ...
... appear odd , that those who come from the fame Egg fhould have tempers and pursuits directly contrary ; yet there is nothing ftrange , that two Brothers , alike in all things elfe , fhould have different amusements . VER . 52. As ...
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