“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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... judgment commonly paft upon Poems . A Critic fuppofes he has done his part , if he proves a writer to have failed in an expreffion , or erred in any particular point : and can it then be wondered at , if the Poets in ge neral feem ...
... judgment commonly paft upon Poems . A Critic fuppofes he has done his part , if he proves a writer to have failed in an expreffion , or erred in any particular point : and can it then be wondered at , if the Poets in ge neral feem ...
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... judgment ; but fuch a Cri- tic's is to put them out of humour ; a defign he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . I think a good deal may be faid to extenuate the fault of bad Poets . What we call a Genius , is hard ...
... judgment ; but fuch a Cri- tic's is to put them out of humour ; a defign he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . I think a good deal may be faid to extenuate the fault of bad Poets . What we call a Genius , is hard ...
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... judgment of others now if he happens to write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) he is immediately made an object of ridicule . I wifh we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst authors might , in their en- deavour to ...
... judgment of others now if he happens to write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) he is immediately made an object of ridicule . I wifh we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst authors might , in their en- deavour to ...
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... judgment to be pleafed with them at last . But I have reafon to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read of others , but even of ...
... judgment to be pleafed with them at last . But I have reafon to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read of others , but even of ...
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... judgment of authors dead and living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be inform'd of my errors , both by my friends and enemies : But the true reafon thefe pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confideration how fhort a ...
... judgment of authors dead and living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be inform'd of my errors , both by my friends and enemies : But the true reafon thefe pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confideration how fhort a ...
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