The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... 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 on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and ...
... 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 on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and ...
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... Author deserves better Usage than a bad Critic : a man may be the former merely thro ' the misfortune of an ill judgment , but he cannot be the latter without both that and an ill temper . I think a good deal may be said to extenuate ...
... Author deserves better Usage than a bad Critic : a man may be the former merely thro ' the misfortune of an ill judgment , but he cannot be the latter without both that and an ill temper . I think a good deal may be said to extenuate ...
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... authors , he would scarce be of their number on any confideration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and ... author ; I writ because it amusfed me ; I corrected because it was as as pleafant to me to correct as to write ...
... authors , he would scarce be of their number on any confideration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and ... author ; I writ because it amusfed me ; I corrected because it was as as pleafant to me to correct as to write ...
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... authors dead and living ; that I omit- ted no means in my power to be inform'd of my errors , both by my friends and enemies ; and that I expect not to be excus'd in any negligence on on account of youth , want of leifure , or PREFACE . II.
... authors dead and living ; that I omit- ted no means in my power to be inform'd of my errors , both by my friends and enemies ; and that I expect not to be excus'd in any negligence on on account of youth , want of leifure , or PREFACE . II.
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... authors have for themselves ; and that I have facrificed much of my own felf - love for its fake , in preventing not only many mean things from fee- ing the light , but many which I thought tole- rable . I would not be like thofe Authors ...
... authors have for themselves ; and that I have facrificed much of my own felf - love for its fake , in preventing not only many mean things from fee- ing the light , but many which I thought tole- rable . I would not be like thofe Authors ...
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