The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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Page 11
... thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients , may as well fay our faces are not our own , because they are like our Fathers : And indeed it is very unreasonable , that people fhould expect us to be Scholars , and yet be ...
... thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients , may as well fay our faces are not our own , because they are like our Fathers : And indeed it is very unreasonable , that people fhould expect us to be Scholars , and yet be ...
Page 12
... thought tolerable . I would not be like thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake of ... thoughts ; and it must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have publish'd , I ...
... thought tolerable . I would not be like thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake of ... thoughts ; and it must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have publish'd , I ...
Page 13
... thought becoming a person who has hardly credit enough to answer for his own . In this office of collecting my pieces , I am altogether uncertain , whether to look upon my felf as a man building a monument , or burying the dead ? If ...
... thought becoming a person who has hardly credit enough to answer for his own . In this office of collecting my pieces , I am altogether uncertain , whether to look upon my felf as a man building a monument , or burying the dead ? If ...
Page xvii
... thought of launching forth agen , Amidft advent'rous Rovers of the Pen ; And after fo much undeserv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at laft to make it lefs . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , Itself a fubject for fatyric rhime ...
... thought of launching forth agen , Amidft advent'rous Rovers of the Pen ; And after fo much undeserv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at laft to make it lefs . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , Itself a fubject for fatyric rhime ...
Page xviii
... 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 musically dull ; 5 10 So So purling ftreams with even ...
... 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 musically dull ; 5 10 So So purling ftreams with even ...
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