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 should 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 should expect us to be Scholars , and yet be ...
Page 12
... thought tole- rable . I would not be like thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake ... thoughts ; and it must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have publish'd ...
... thought tole- rable . I would not be like thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake ... thoughts ; and it must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have publish'd ...
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 al- together 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 al- together 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 undeferv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at last to make it less . 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 undeferv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at last to make it less . 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 moft mufically dull ; 10 * So 1 So purling ftreams with ...
... 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 moft mufically dull ; 10 * So 1 So purling ftreams with ...
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