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a ' Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain , And charitably let the dull be vain : Your silence there is better than your spite , For who can rail so long as they can write ? Still humming on , their drowsy course they keep ...
a ' Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain , And charitably let the dull be vain : Your silence there is better than your spite , For who can rail so long as they can write ? Still humming on , their drowsy course they keep ...
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In acquired knowledge the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastick , and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study , with better means of information .
In acquired knowledge the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastick , and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study , with better means of information .
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I shall not enter into the curious inquiry of what is , or is not , strictly speaking , original , content with what all must allow , that some compositions are more so than others ; and the more they are so , I say , the better .
I shall not enter into the curious inquiry of what is , or is not , strictly speaking , original , content with what all must allow , that some compositions are more so than others ; and the more they are so , I say , the better .
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General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
Urheberrecht | |
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