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, 3. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the practice , more than advanced the theory , of Morality . If I could flatter myfelf that this Effay has any merit , it is in fteering betwixt the ...
... less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the practice , more than advanced the theory , of Morality . If I could flatter myfelf that this Effay has any merit , it is in fteering betwixt the ...
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... less ? Afk of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? 40 Or afk of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove ? Of Systems poffible , if ' tis confeft That Wisdom ...
... less ? Afk of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? 40 Or afk of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove ? Of Systems poffible , if ' tis confeft That Wisdom ...
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... less than Angel , would be more ; COMMENTARY . 174 ously turns the natural bias of its malignity to the advancement of human happiness , and makes it productive of general Good : TH'ETERNAL ART EDUCES GOOD FROM ILL . Ep . ii . 175 ...
... less than Angel , would be more ; COMMENTARY . 174 ously turns the natural bias of its malignity to the advancement of human happiness , and makes it productive of general Good : TH'ETERNAL ART EDUCES GOOD FROM ILL . Ep . ii . 175 ...
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... less , from fuch a Prefence , than fuch a Difpenfation . NOTES . VER . 265. Just as abfurd , & c . ] See the Profecution and application of this in Ep . iv . P. VER . 266. The great directing Mind & c . ] " Veneramur " autem & colimus ...
... less , from fuch a Prefence , than fuch a Difpenfation . NOTES . VER . 265. Just as abfurd , & c . ] See the Profecution and application of this in Ep . iv . P. VER . 266. The great directing Mind & c . ] " Veneramur " autem & colimus ...
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... less than the perfect- ing the conftitution of the whole , as lights and fhades , which run into one another in a well - wrought picture , make the har- mony and fpirit of the compofition . But on this account to fay there is neither ...
... less than the perfect- ing the conftitution of the whole , as lights and fhades , which run into one another in a well - wrought picture , make the har- mony and fpirit of the compofition . But on this account to fay there is neither ...
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