“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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... lefs concerned about Fame than I durft declare till this occafion , when methinks I fhould find more credit than I could heretofore fince my writings have had their fate already , and it is too late to think of prepoffeffing the reader ...
... lefs concerned about Fame than I durft declare till this occafion , when methinks I fhould find more credit than I could heretofore fince my writings have had their fate already , and it is too late to think of prepoffeffing the reader ...
Page xv
... lefs . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , Itfelf a Subject for fatiric thyme ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with fo much Art , Such various ...
... lefs . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , Itfelf a Subject for fatiric thyme ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with fo much Art , Such various ...
Page xxiii
... Lefs fhone the treffes Egypt's princefs wore , Which sweet Callimachus so sung before . Here courtly trifles fet the world at odds ; Belles war with Beaux , and Whims defcend for Gods . The new Machines , in names of ridicule , Mock the ...
... Lefs fhone the treffes Egypt's princefs wore , Which sweet Callimachus so sung before . Here courtly trifles fet the world at odds ; Belles war with Beaux , and Whims defcend for Gods . The new Machines , in names of ridicule , Mock the ...
Page 12
... lefs , that this fort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural cafe of tought and smoothness of verfe ; whereas that of most other kinds confifts in the ftrength and fulness of both . In a letter of his to Mr. Walsh ...
... lefs , that this fort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural cafe of tought and smoothness of verfe ; whereas that of most other kinds confifts in the ftrength and fulness of both . In a letter of his to Mr. Walsh ...
Page 27
... lefs'ning as they rife , VARIATIONS . VER . 48. Originally thus in the MS . With him thro Libya's burning plains I'll go , On Alpine mountains tread th ' eternal fnow ; Yer feel no heat but what our loves impart , And dread no coldness ...
... lefs'ning as they rife , VARIATIONS . VER . 48. Originally thus in the MS . With him thro Libya's burning plains I'll go , On Alpine mountains tread th ' eternal fnow ; Yer feel no heat but what our loves impart , And dread no coldness ...
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