The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius |
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... reader will , nevertheless , unavoidably meet with some repetitions of matter , which is already perhaps familiar to him . In those instances , where the writer hath been indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed ...
... reader will , nevertheless , unavoidably meet with some repetitions of matter , which is already perhaps familiar to him . In those instances , where the writer hath been indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed ...
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... reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath prefumed to differ from the moft refpectable authorities , he would be rather understood to propose a doubt , than to offer a contradiction : he is not fo vain , 10 make light of the ...
... reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath prefumed to differ from the moft refpectable authorities , he would be rather understood to propose a doubt , than to offer a contradiction : he is not fo vain , 10 make light of the ...
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... readers . Befides , it is fcarce poffible fometimes , when we are smitten with a fine paffage , to fupprefs those ... reader will afcribe them to a folicitude , which made him rather earnest to do juftice to the poet's merit , than to ...
... readers . Befides , it is fcarce poffible fometimes , when we are smitten with a fine paffage , to fupprefs those ... reader will afcribe them to a folicitude , which made him rather earnest to do juftice to the poet's merit , than to ...
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... readers perhaps who judge for themselves . The far greater part deter- mine upon the authority of others , rather than from their own fentiments . Thus the partial judgment or caprice of fome fashionable and over - ruling critic , often ...
... readers perhaps who judge for themselves . The far greater part deter- mine upon the authority of others , rather than from their own fentiments . Thus the partial judgment or caprice of fome fashionable and over - ruling critic , often ...
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... reader's at- tention will be occafionally relieved , and his curiofity gratified , by a detail of several anec- dotes , concerning our author and his cotempo- raries ; of which many have never yet been made public . Several inftances ...
... reader's at- tention will be occafionally relieved , and his curiofity gratified , by a detail of several anec- dotes , concerning our author and his cotempo- raries ; of which many have never yet been made public . Several inftances ...
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