“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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... fince , if it be given to his face , it can fearce be diftin- guifh'd from flattery , and if in his abfence , it is hard to be certain of it . Were he fure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as fure of being envied by ...
... fince , if it be given to his face , it can fearce be diftin- guifh'd from flattery , and if in his abfence , it is hard to be certain of it . Were he fure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as fure of being envied by ...
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... fince my writings have had their fate already , and it is too late to think of prepoffeffing the reader in their favour . I would plead it as fome merit in me , that the world has never been prepared for thefe Trifles by Prefaces ...
... fince my writings have had their fate already , and it is too late to think of prepoffeffing the reader in their favour . I would plead it as fome merit in me , that the world has never been prepared for thefe Trifles by Prefaces ...
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... fince the life of fhep- herds was attended with more tranquillity than any other rural employment , the Poets chose to introduce their Perfons , from whom it received the name of Pastoral . VA Paftoral is an imitation of the action of a ...
... fince the life of fhep- herds was attended with more tranquillity than any other rural employment , the Poets chose to introduce their Perfons , from whom it received the name of Pastoral . VA Paftoral is an imitation of the action of a ...
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... fince the inftructions given for any art are to be delivered as that art is in perfection , they muft of neceffity be derived from thofe in whom it is acknowledged fo to be . It is therefore from the practice of Theocritus and Virgil ...
... fince the inftructions given for any art are to be delivered as that art is in perfection , they muft of neceffity be derived from thofe in whom it is acknowledged fo to be . It is therefore from the practice of Theocritus and Virgil ...
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... fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in fome few points . His Eclogues are fomewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He is fometimes too allegorical , and treats of matters of religion in ...
... fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in fome few points . His Eclogues are fomewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He is fometimes too allegorical , and treats of matters of religion in ...
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