The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... 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 time of any particular ...
... 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 time of any particular ...
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... write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) he is immediately made an object of ridicule . I wish we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst au- thors thors might endeavour to please us , and in that 6 PREFACE .
... write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) he is immediately made an object of ridicule . I wish we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst au- thors thors might endeavour to please us , and in that 6 PREFACE .
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Alexander Pope. thors might endeavour to please us , and in that en- deavour , deserve something at our hands . We ... please the world , he falls under very un- lucky circumstances : for from the moment he A 4 prints , prints , he ...
Alexander Pope. thors might endeavour to please us , and in that en- deavour , deserve something at our hands . We ... please the world , he falls under very un- lucky circumstances : for from the moment he A 4 prints , prints , he ...
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... please fuch as it was a credit to pleafe . To what degree I have done this , I am really ignorant ; I had too much fondness for my productions to judge of them at first , and too much judgment to be pleas'd with them at laft . But I ...
... please fuch as it was a credit to pleafe . To what degree I have done this , I am really ignorant ; I had too much fondness for my productions to judge of them at first , and too much judgment to be pleas'd with them at laft . But I ...
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... please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by Nature to the Ancients shown ; Fancy improves , and Judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ...
... please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by Nature to the Ancients shown ; Fancy improves , and Judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope William John Courthope,John Wilson Croker,Alexander Pope No preview available - 2015 |
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