The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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Page 11
... true , that in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to them . For to fay truth , whatever is very good fenfe , must have been common sense in all times ; and ...
... true , that in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to them . For to fay truth , whatever is very good fenfe , must have been common sense in all times ; and ...
Page 12
... true reafon these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in bringing fenfe and rhyme together ; and what Critic can be fo ...
... true reafon these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in bringing fenfe and rhyme together ; and what Critic can be fo ...
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... 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 becoming art , the Players dress In filks 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 becoming art , the Players dress In filks the ...
Page xxi
... true the fair Lodona shows The fylvan ftate that on her border grows , While the the wond'ring fhepherd entertains With a new Windsor in her wat'ry plains : Thy jufter lays the lucid wave surpass , 20 The living scene is in the Mufe's ...
... true the fair Lodona shows The fylvan ftate that on her border grows , While the the wond'ring fhepherd entertains With a new Windsor in her wat'ry plains : Thy jufter lays the lucid wave surpass , 20 The living scene is in the Mufe's ...
Page 38
... true ; But fince thofe graces meet my eyes no more , Ifhun , & c . Virgil again from the Cyclops of Theocritus , -nuper me in littore vidi Cum placidum ventis ftaret mare , non ego Daphnim Judice te , metuam , fi nunquam fallat imago ...
... true ; But fince thofe graces meet my eyes no more , Ifhun , & c . Virgil again from the Cyclops of Theocritus , -nuper me in littore vidi Cum placidum ventis ftaret mare , non ego Daphnim Judice te , metuam , fi nunquam fallat imago ...
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