“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 iii
... must collect for himself . The FIRST Volume , and the original poems in the SECOND , are here printed from a copy corrected throughout by the Author himself , even to the very preface : Which , with feveral additional notes in his own ...
... must collect for himself . The FIRST Volume , and the original poems in the SECOND , are here printed from a copy corrected throughout by the Author himself , even to the very preface : Which , with feveral additional notes in his own ...
Page iv
... must be added a great number of fine verfes taken from the Author's Manufcript - copies of these poems , communi- cated by him for this purpofe to the Editor . Thefe , when he first publifhed the poems , to which they belong , he ...
... must be added a great number of fine verfes taken from the Author's Manufcript - copies of these poems , communi- cated by him for this purpofe to the Editor . Thefe , when he first publifhed the poems , to which they belong , he ...
Page x
... must have a ftrange impo- tency of mind whom fuch miferable fcriblers can ruffle . Of all that grofs Beotian phalanx who have written fcurriloufly against me I know not fo much as one whom a writer of reputation would not wish to have ...
... must have a ftrange impo- tency of mind whom fuch miferable fcriblers can ruffle . Of all that grofs Beotian phalanx who have written fcurriloufly against me I know not fo much as one whom a writer of reputation would not wish to have ...
Page x
... must ap- prove whatever they produce ; and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them . at any rate . Methinks , as on the one hand , no fingle man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the reft ; fo ...
... must ap- prove whatever they produce ; and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them . at any rate . Methinks , as on the one hand , no fingle man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the reft ; fo ...
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... must expect to hear no more truth , than if he were a Prince , or a Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit , for one man of fenfe ) his living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no final ...
... must expect to hear no more truth , than if he were a Prince , or a Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit , for one man of fenfe ) his living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no final ...
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