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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... mean time , be fo far from coun tenancing such worthless trash in others , that he would be ready to execrate even his own beft vein of poetry , if made at the expence of Truth or Innocence . Curst be the verse , how well so e'er it ...
... mean time , be fo far from coun tenancing such worthless trash in others , that he would be ready to execrate even his own beft vein of poetry , if made at the expence of Truth or Innocence . Curst be the verse , how well so e'er it ...
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... mean ; fung by Perfius ; and the words alluded to are , Vidi , vidi ipfe , Libelle ! Auriculas Afini Mida Rex habet . The tranfition is fine , but obfcure : for he has here imitated the manner of that myfterious writer , as well as ...
... mean ; fung by Perfius ; and the words alluded to are , Vidi , vidi ipfe , Libelle ! Auriculas Afini Mida Rex habet . The tranfition is fine , but obfcure : for he has here imitated the manner of that myfterious writer , as well as ...
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... means Au- thors of the fame clafs , though the violence of party might hurry them into the fame mistakes . But if the firft offended this way , it was only through an honeft warmth of temper , that allowed too little to an excellent ...
... means Au- thors of the fame clafs , though the violence of party might hurry them into the fame mistakes . But if the firft offended this way , it was only through an honeft warmth of temper , that allowed too little to an excellent ...
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... Means not , but blunders round about a meaning : NOTES , as a toad , or a beetle , become pleafing when well reprefented in a work of Art . But it is no less eminent for the beauty of the thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being ...
... Means not , but blunders round about a meaning : NOTES , as a toad , or a beetle , become pleafing when well reprefented in a work of Art . But it is no less eminent for the beauty of the thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being ...
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... Means not , but blunders round about a meaning : ] A cafe common both to Poets and Critics of a certain order ; only with this difference , that the Poet writes himself out of his own meaning ; and the Critic never gets into another ...
... Means not , but blunders round about a meaning : ] A cafe common both to Poets and Critics of a certain order ; only with this difference , that the Poet writes himself out of his own meaning ; and the Critic never gets into another ...
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