The Works Of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, With His Last Corrections, Additions, And Improvements. Being The Second Of His Letters. 8Nicolai, 1764 - 225 pages |
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Page 4
... less importance , than to remove fuch and fuch mountains , alter the courfe of fuch and fuch rivers , place a large city on fuch a coaft , and raze another country . I have fet bounds to the fea , and faid to the land , Thus far fhalt ...
... less importance , than to remove fuch and fuch mountains , alter the courfe of fuch and fuch rivers , place a large city on fuch a coaft , and raze another country . I have fet bounds to the fea , and faid to the land , Thus far fhalt ...
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... less to your fatisfaction : for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater in obliging me , ..than I can feel on my part , till it falls in my power to ob- lige you . Your remark , that the variety of opinions in po- liticis or ...
... less to your fatisfaction : for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater in obliging me , ..than I can feel on my part , till it falls in my power to ob- lige you . Your remark , that the variety of opinions in po- liticis or ...
Page 39
... less than I ought . For having defign'd four laborious and uncom- very mon fort of Indexes to Homer , I'm forç'd , for want of time , to publish two only ; the design of which you will own to be pretty , tho ' far from being fully exe ...
... less than I ought . For having defign'd four laborious and uncom- very mon fort of Indexes to Homer , I'm forç'd , for want of time , to publish two only ; the design of which you will own to be pretty , tho ' far from being fully exe ...
Page 66
... less than ever I did . But I can deny you nothing ; especially fince you have had the goodness often , and patiently , to hear what I have faid against rhyme , and in behalf of blank verfe ; with little difcretion perhaps , but , I am ...
... less than ever I did . But I can deny you nothing ; especially fince you have had the goodness often , and patiently , to hear what I have faid against rhyme , and in behalf of blank verfe ; with little difcretion perhaps , but , I am ...
Page 68
... less reverence that I used to do . I challenge you , with all your partiality ' , to fhew me in the first of these any thing equal to the Allegory of Sin and Death , either as to the greatness and justness of the in vention , or the ...
... less reverence that I used to do . I challenge you , with all your partiality ' , to fhew me in the first of these any thing equal to the Allegory of Sin and Death , either as to the greatness and justness of the in vention , or the ...
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