“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 1. köideFredrick Nicolai, 1762 |
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... fhould not wholly displease to the lovers of English Lite- rature . The Editions of the Works of MIL- TON , ADDISON , THOMPSON , SHAKESPEARE , YOUNG , PRIOR AKENSIDE , and other claffical English Writers fhall follow immediatly the ...
... fhould not wholly displease to the lovers of English Lite- rature . The Editions of the Works of MIL- TON , ADDISON , THOMPSON , SHAKESPEARE , YOUNG , PRIOR AKENSIDE , and other claffical English Writers fhall follow immediatly the ...
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... fhould have time to difpofe of them to the best advantage , be- fore the publication of this Edition ( which hath been long prepared ) fhould put a stop to the fale . But it may be proper to be a little more par ticular concerning the ...
... fhould have time to difpofe of them to the best advantage , be- fore the publication of this Edition ( which hath been long prepared ) fhould put a stop to the fale . But it may be proper to be a little more par ticular concerning the ...
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... , at prefent , I have only this further to add , That it was at my requeft he laid the plan of a fourth Book . I often told him , It was pity fo fine a poem fhould remain difgraced by the meanness of its subject , a 3 ADVERTISEMENT . V.
... , at prefent , I have only this further to add , That it was at my requeft he laid the plan of a fourth Book . I often told him , It was pity fo fine a poem fhould remain difgraced by the meanness of its subject , a 3 ADVERTISEMENT . V.
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... fhould remain difgraced by the meanness of its subject , the most infignificant of all Dunces , bad Rhymers and malevolent Cavillers : That he ought to raise and enoble it by pointing his Satire against the most pernicious of all ...
... fhould remain difgraced by the meanness of its subject , the most infignificant of all Dunces , bad Rhymers and malevolent Cavillers : That he ought to raise and enoble it by pointing his Satire against the most pernicious of all ...
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... is not for the interefts of his Virtues that they fhould . a A wit's a feather , and a chief's a rod , " An honeft Man's the nobleft work of God.- Nor indeed could they be concealed , if we were a 5 ADVERTISEMENT . IX.
... is not for the interefts of his Virtues that they fhould . a A wit's a feather , and a chief's a rod , " An honeft Man's the nobleft work of God.- Nor indeed could they be concealed , if we were a 5 ADVERTISEMENT . IX.
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