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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... thoughts of publishing it , till it pleased fome Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator ... thought it the fhortest way to put the laft hand to this Epistle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that ...
... thoughts of publishing it , till it pleased fome Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator ... thought it the fhortest way to put the laft hand to this Epistle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that ...
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... a Mother's breath , Make Languor fmile , and smooth the bed of Death ; Explore the thought , explain the asking eye , And keep a while one Parent from the sky ! B FHayman inv . et del . C.Grignion Sculp Shut 8 .. PROLOGUE.
... a Mother's breath , Make Languor fmile , and smooth the bed of Death ; Explore the thought , explain the asking eye , And keep a while one Parent from the sky ! B FHayman inv . et del . C.Grignion Sculp Shut 8 .. PROLOGUE.
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... thought CICERONIANS carried the most celebrated Italians of this time . They abftained from reading the Scriptures for fear of spoiling their ftyle : Cardinal Bembo ufed to call the Epiftles of St. Paul by the contemptuous name of ...
... thought CICERONIANS carried the most celebrated Italians of this time . They abftained from reading the Scriptures for fear of spoiling their ftyle : Cardinal Bembo ufed to call the Epiftles of St. Paul by the contemptuous name of ...
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... thought this Critic the likelieft to fpare , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boasted that he had arms even against Christ himself . But Codrus Urcæus went further , and actually used those arms the other only threatened with ...
... thought this Critic the likelieft to fpare , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boasted that he had arms even against Christ himself . But Codrus Urcæus went further , and actually used those arms the other only threatened with ...
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... thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being thus incor- porated , yet he exists intombed , a lafting monument of the wrath of the Mufes . VER , 173. Were others angry : ] The Poets , - VER . 174. I gave them but their due . ] Our ...
... thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being thus incor- porated , yet he exists intombed , a lafting monument of the wrath of the Mufes . VER , 173. Were others angry : ] The Poets , - VER . 174. I gave them but their due . ] Our ...
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