The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes, Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements: Together with the Commentary and Notes of His Editor, Band 1C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1770 |
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... living thus in a courfe of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : if he has , he will confequently have fo much diffidence as not to reap any great fa- tisfaction from his praife ; fince , if it be given to his ...
... living thus in a courfe of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : if he has , he will confequently have fo much diffidence as not to reap any great fa- tisfaction from his praife ; fince , if it be given to his ...
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... fhould expect us to be Scholars , and yet be angry to find us fo . I fairly confefs that I have ferved myself all I could by reading ; that I made ufe of the judg- ment ment of authors dead and living ; that I omitted PREFA ĆE . XV.
... fhould expect us to be Scholars , and yet be angry to find us fo . I fairly confefs that I have ferved myself all I could by reading ; that I made ufe of the judg- ment ment of authors dead and living ; that I omitted PREFA ĆE . XV.
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... living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be informed of my errors , both by my friends and enemies : But the true reason these pieces are not more cor- rect , is owing to the confideration how fhort a time they , and I , have to ...
... living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be informed of my errors , both by my friends and enemies : But the true reason these pieces are not more cor- rect , is owing to the confideration how fhort a time they , and I , have to ...
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... could never be defended . That I ufed no artifice to raise or continue a reputation , depreciated no dead au- thor I was obliged to , bribed no living one with unjust unjust praise , infulted no adversary with ill lan- guage xviii PREFACE .
... could never be defended . That I ufed no artifice to raise or continue a reputation , depreciated no dead au- thor I was obliged to , bribed no living one with unjust unjust praise , infulted no adversary with ill lan- guage xviii PREFACE .
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... lucid wave surpass , The living scene is in the Muse's glass . Nor fweeter notes the echoing forefts cheer , When Philomela fits and warbles there , 20 25 Than I Than when you fing the greens and op'ning glades , ( xxvii )
... lucid wave surpass , The living scene is in the Muse's glass . Nor fweeter notes the echoing forefts cheer , When Philomela fits and warbles there , 20 25 Than I Than when you fing the greens and op'ning glades , ( xxvii )
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