The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... most part in- deed but a fort of Exercises , while he was improving himself in the Languages , and carried by his early Bent to Poetry to per- form them rather in Verse than Profe . Mr. Dryden's Fables came out about that time , which ...
... most part in- deed but a fort of Exercises , while he was improving himself in the Languages , and carried by his early Bent to Poetry to per- form them rather in Verse than Profe . Mr. Dryden's Fables came out about that time , which ...
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... most of the particular thoughts my own : Yet I could not fuffer it to be printed without this acknowledgment . The rea- der who would compare this with Chaucer , may begin with his third book of Fame , there being nothing in the two ...
... most of the particular thoughts my own : Yet I could not fuffer it to be printed without this acknowledgment . The rea- der who would compare this with Chaucer , may begin with his third book of Fame , there being nothing in the two ...
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... most part Vifions , or pieces of imagination , and conftantly descriptive . From these , Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems . See the Trionfi of the former , and the Dream , Flower and the Leaf , & c . of the ...
... most part Vifions , or pieces of imagination , and conftantly descriptive . From these , Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems . See the Trionfi of the former , and the Dream , Flower and the Leaf , & c . of the ...
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... most part in geometry and astronomy : They also preserv'd the Hi- 1tory of their nation . Their greatest Hero upon record is Sesoftris , whose actions and conquests may be seen at large in Diodorus , & c . He is faid to have caus'd the ...
... most part in geometry and astronomy : They also preserv'd the Hi- 1tory of their nation . Their greatest Hero upon record is Sesoftris , whose actions and conquests may be seen at large in Diodorus , & c . He is faid to have caus'd the ...
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... most striking subjects of their works ; which sculp- ture bears a resemblance in its manner and character , to the manner and character of their writings . VER . 179. Six pompous columns , & c . ] From the dees many a pillere , Of metal ...
... most striking subjects of their works ; which sculp- ture bears a resemblance in its manner and character , to the manner and character of their writings . VER . 179. Six pompous columns , & c . ] From the dees many a pillere , Of metal ...
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