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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... only to those I am leaft forry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there be- ing not a circumftance but what is true ; but I have , ( 4 ) for the moft part , fpared their B 2 ( 3 )
... only to those I am leaft forry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there be- ing not a circumftance but what is true ; but I have , ( 4 ) for the moft part , fpared their B 2 ( 3 )
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... true Poet , he breaks out into a paffionate vow for a continuance of the full Liberty atten- dant on it . And to fhew how well he deserves it , and how fafely he might be trusted with it , he concludes his wish with a description of his ...
... true Poet , he breaks out into a paffionate vow for a continuance of the full Liberty atten- dant on it . And to fhew how well he deserves it , and how fafely he might be trusted with it , he concludes his wish with a description of his ...
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... true Character of defcriptive poetry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces . The ufe of a pictor- efque imagination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only in ...
... true Character of defcriptive poetry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces . The ufe of a pictor- efque imagination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only in ...
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... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in ftore . In a letter to Thuanus , speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the first , a monster of ignorance ; and the other , a flave ...
... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in ftore . In a letter to Thuanus , speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the first , a monster of ignorance ; and the other , a flave ...
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... true merit ' tis not hard to find ; But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind , That Cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The Bard whom pilfer'd Paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian ...
... true merit ' tis not hard to find ; But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind , That Cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The Bard whom pilfer'd Paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian ...
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