The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... themselves in any error ? For as long as one fide despises a well - meant endeavour , the other will not be fatisfy'd with a moderate approbation . I am afraid this extreme zeal on both fides is ill- plac'd ; Poetry and Criticism being ...
... themselves in any error ? For as long as one fide despises a well - meant endeavour , the other will not be fatisfy'd with a moderate approbation . I am afraid this extreme zeal on both fides is ill- plac'd ; Poetry and Criticism being ...
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... themselves not only to that art , but to that fingle branch of an art , to which their talent was most powerfully bent ; and it was the business of their lives to correct and fi- nith their works for pofterity . If we can pretend to ...
... themselves not only to that art , but to that fingle branch of an art , to which their talent was most powerfully bent ; and it was the business of their lives to correct and fi- nith their works for pofterity . If we can pretend to ...
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... 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 , who forgive ...
... 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 , who forgive ...
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... themselves ; and a Memento mori to fome of my vain cotemporaries the Poets , to teach them that when real merit is wanting , it avails nothing to have been encourag'd by the great , commended by the eminent , and fa . vour'd by the ...
... themselves ; and a Memento mori to fome of my vain cotemporaries the Poets , to teach them that when real merit is wanting , it avails nothing to have been encourag'd by the great , commended by the eminent , and fa . vour'd by the ...
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... pastoral in themselves , but only feem to be fuch ; they have a wonderful variety in them , which the Greek was a stranger to . He exceeds him in regularity regularity and brevity , and falls fhort of him in 22 A DISCOURSE ON.
... pastoral in themselves , but only feem to be fuch ; they have a wonderful variety in them , which the Greek was a stranger to . He exceeds him in regularity regularity and brevity , and falls fhort of him in 22 A DISCOURSE ON.
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