“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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Page vi
... 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 , Minute- philofophers and Free thinkers , I imagined , too , it ...
... 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 , Minute- philofophers and Free thinkers , I imagined , too , it ...
Page x
... most part , is to please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill 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 ...
... most part , is to please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill 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 ...
Page x
... most knowing , he is as fure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine Genius as with a fine fashion , all thofe are difpleafed at it who are not able to follow . it and it is to be ...
... most knowing , he is as fure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine Genius as with a fine fashion , all thofe are difpleafed at it who are not able to follow . it and it is to be ...
Page x
... most powerfully bent ; and it was the business of their lives to correct and finifh their works for Pofterity . If we can pretend to have used the fame industry , let us expect the fame immor- tality Tho ' if we took the fame care , we ...
... most powerfully bent ; and it was the business of their lives to correct and finifh their works for Pofterity . If we can pretend to have used the fame industry , let us expect the fame immor- tality Tho ' if we took the fame care , we ...
Page xvi
... most musically dull : So purling treans with even murmurs creep , And hufh the heavy hearers into fleep . As fmootheft fpeech is most deceitful found , The fmootheft nuinbers oft . are empty found . But Wit and Judgment join at once in ...
... most musically dull : So purling treans with even murmurs creep , And hufh the heavy hearers into fleep . As fmootheft fpeech is most deceitful found , The fmootheft nuinbers oft . are empty found . But Wit and Judgment join at once in ...
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