The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... taken for granted , by the judgment commonly past upon Poems . A Critic fuppofes he has done his part , if he proves a writer to have fail'd in an expreffion , A 3 ΩΣ or err'd in any particular point : and can it PREFACE. ...
... taken for granted , by the judgment commonly past upon Poems . A Critic fuppofes he has done his part , if he proves a writer to have fail'd in an expreffion , A 3 ΩΣ or err'd in any particular point : and can it PREFACE. ...
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... writing , and appealing to the judgment of others : And if he happens to write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) he is immediately made an object of ridicule . I wish we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst au ...
... writing , and appealing to the judgment of others : And if he happens to write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) he is immediately made an object of ridicule . I wish we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst au ...
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... fine reasons and pretences , or troubled with excufes . I confefs it was want of confideration that made me an author ; I writ because it amusfed me ; I corrected because it was as as pleafant to me to correct as to write ; PREFACE .
... fine reasons and pretences , or troubled with excufes . I confefs it was want of confideration that made me an author ; I writ because it amusfed me ; I corrected because it was as as pleafant to me to correct as to write ; PREFACE .
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Alexander Pope. as pleafant to me to correct as to write ; and I pub- lifh'd because I was told I might please fuch as it was a credit to pleafe . To what degree I have done this , I am really ignorant ; I had too much fondness for my ...
Alexander Pope. as pleafant to me to correct as to write ; and I pub- lifh'd because I was told I might please fuch as it was a credit to pleafe . To what degree I have done this , I am really ignorant ; I had too much fondness for my ...
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... writer , as the power of rejecting his own 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 can only hope to be pardon'd ; but for what I have burn'd , I deserve to be ...
... writer , as the power of rejecting his own 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 can only hope to be pardon'd ; but for what I have burn'd , I deserve to be ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope William John Courthope,John Wilson Croker,Alexander Pope No preview available - 2015 |
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