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... thofe are difpleas'd at it who are not able to follow it : And ' tis to be fear'd that efteem will feldom do any man fo much good , as ill - will does him harm . Then there is a third class of people who make the largest part of mankind ...
... thofe are difpleas'd at it who are not able to follow it : And ' tis to be fear'd that efteem will feldom do any man fo much good , as ill - will does him harm . Then there is a third class of people who make the largest part of mankind ...
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... thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake of a whole Poem , and vice verfa a whole Poem for the fake of fome paricular lines . I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer , as the ...
... thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake of a whole Poem , and vice verfa a whole Poem for the fake of fome paricular lines . I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer , as the ...
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... thofe Wits , whofe 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 unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most ...
... thofe Wits , whofe 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 unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most ...
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... thofe flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true measure of the fhepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with ...
... thofe flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true measure of the fhepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with ...
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Alexander Pope. Yet long her Modesty thofe charms conceal'd , " Till by men's Envy to the world reveal'd ; For Wits induftrious to their trouble feem , And needs will envy what they must esteem . Live and enjoy their spite ! nor mourn ...
Alexander Pope. Yet long her Modesty thofe charms conceal'd , " Till by men's Envy to the world reveal'd ; For Wits induftrious to their trouble feem , And needs will envy what they must esteem . Live and enjoy their spite ! nor mourn ...
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