The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... muft ap- prove whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . Methinks as on the one hand , no fingle man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the reft ; fo on ...
... muft ap- prove whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . Methinks as on the one hand , no fingle man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the reft ; fo on ...
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... muft give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a Genius to Poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of felf - amufement when a man is idle or alone ; the ...
... muft give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a Genius to Poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of felf - amufement when a man is idle or alone ; the ...
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... muft have been common fense in all times ; and what we call Learning , is but the knowlegde of the fenfe of our predeceffors . Therefore they who fay our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients , may as well fay our ...
... muft have been common fense in all times ; and what we call Learning , is but the knowlegde of the fenfe of our predeceffors . Therefore they who fay our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients , may as well fay our ...
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... muft farther acquit , my felf of the prefumption of having lent my name to recommend any Miscel- lanies , or Works of other men ; a thing I never thought becoming a person who has hardly credit enough to answer for his own . In this ...
... muft farther acquit , my felf of the prefumption of having lent my name to recommend any Miscel- lanies , or Works of other men ; a thing I never thought becoming a person who has hardly credit enough to answer for his own . In this ...
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... muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the fhepherd , and the fhepherdess ; Yet ftill unchang'd the form and mode remain , Shap'd like the ...
... muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the fhepherd , and the fhepherdess ; Yet ftill unchang'd the form and mode remain , Shap'd like the ...
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