The Life of Alexander Pope: Esq. Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius. By Owen Ruffhead, EsqC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, [and 8 others in London], 1769 - Electronic books - 578 pages |
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... whole life : and farther than a warm love for his country , which never could mislead him , and for his friends , which fometimes , perhaps , did , ( that is , his judgment only ) his indifference at laft ended in averfion . In a word ...
... whole life : and farther than a warm love for his country , which never could mislead him , and for his friends , which fometimes , perhaps , did , ( that is , his judgment only ) his indifference at laft ended in averfion . In a word ...
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... whole , might do credit to any name , yet it is but decent to allow every writer to be the best judge of what conduces to his own intereft and re- putation . At the fame time , I will be free to observe , that though this effay is ...
... whole , might do credit to any name , yet it is but decent to allow every writer to be the best judge of what conduces to his own intereft and re- putation . At the fame time , I will be free to observe , that though this effay is ...
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... whole , it is not too much to fay of thefe paftorals , that though they are profeffedly imitations of the antients ; yet there are few paffages , which our poet has borrowed , with- cut improving them ; as the reader may judge by ...
... whole , it is not too much to fay of thefe paftorals , that though they are profeffedly imitations of the antients ; yet there are few paffages , which our poet has borrowed , with- cut improving them ; as the reader may judge by ...
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... whole of this misunderstanding , Mr. POPE , though a youth , difplayed a most manifeft fuperiority . you wife men say , fhould be the last we receive : " For , if obferve , " fays our author , " matrimony is placed after ex- treme ...
... whole of this misunderstanding , Mr. POPE , though a youth , difplayed a most manifeft fuperiority . you wife men say , fhould be the last we receive : " For , if obferve , " fays our author , " matrimony is placed after ex- treme ...
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... whole , " The body's harmony , the beaming foul , " Are things which Kufter , Burman , Waffe all fee , " When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea . " The The poet having in the opening , fhewn the use 68 THE LIFE OF.
... whole , " The body's harmony , the beaming foul , " Are things which Kufter , Burman , Waffe all fee , " When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea . " The The poet having in the opening , fhewn the use 68 THE LIFE OF.
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