“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 iv
... 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 thought proper , for va ...
... 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 thought proper , for va ...
Page viii
... number of his verfes are here firft printed from the Manu fcript - copies of his principal poems of later date ; That many new notes of the Author's are here added to his Poems ; and laftly , that feveral pieces , both in profe and ...
... number of his verfes are here firft printed from the Manu fcript - copies of his principal poems of later date ; That many new notes of the Author's are here added to his Poems ; and laftly , that feveral pieces , both in profe and ...
Page x
... number on any confide- ration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and the prefent fpirit of the learned world is fuch , that to attempt to ferve it ( any way ) one must have the conftancy of a martyr , and a refolution to ...
... number on any confide- ration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and the prefent fpirit of the learned world is fuch , that to attempt to ferve it ( any way ) one must have the conftancy of a martyr , and a refolution to ...
Page xvi
... numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmev'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most musically dull : So ...
... numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmev'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most musically dull : So ...
Page xx
... numbers fir'd That Maro taught , or Addison infpir'd . 65 70 Ev'n I effay'd to touch the trembling ftring : Who could hear them , and not attempt to fing ? Rouz'd from thefe dreams by thy commanding ftrain , 76 I rife and wander thro ...
... numbers fir'd That Maro taught , or Addison infpir'd . 65 70 Ev'n I effay'd to touch the trembling ftring : Who could hear them , and not attempt to fing ? Rouz'd from thefe dreams by thy commanding ftrain , 76 I rife and wander thro ...
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