The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... remarks , which , I think , have escaped their observation . The original of poetry is ascribed to that age which succeeded the creation of the world ; and as the Written at sixteen years of age . keeping of flocks seems to have been ...
... remarks , which , I think , have escaped their observation . The original of poetry is ascribed to that age which succeeded the creation of the world ; and as the Written at sixteen years of age . keeping of flocks seems to have been ...
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... enemy , and slanderer , or that the reign of the last Dennis , Pref . to his Reflect . on the Essay on Criticism . + Preface to his Remarks on Homer . ( queen Anne's ) ministry was designed by fate to 472 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
... enemy , and slanderer , or that the reign of the last Dennis , Pref . to his Reflect . on the Essay on Criticism . + Preface to his Remarks on Homer . ( queen Anne's ) ministry was designed by fate to 472 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
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... REMARKS . 10 sliall follow the manuscript , and print it without any e at all ; moved thereto by authority ( at all times , with critics , equal , if not superior to reason ) . In which method of proceeding , I can never enough praise ...
... REMARKS . 10 sliall follow the manuscript , and print it without any e at all ; moved thereto by authority ( at all times , with critics , equal , if not superior to reason ) . In which method of proceeding , I can never enough praise ...
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... REMARKS . the former editor , that this piece was presented by the hands of sir Robert Walpole to king George II . Now the author directly tells us , his hero is the man who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings . And it is ...
... REMARKS . the former editor , that this piece was presented by the hands of sir Robert Walpole to king George II . Now the author directly tells us , his hero is the man who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings . And it is ...
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... REMARKS . 20 the restoration of the empire of dulness in Britain , which is not accomplished till the last . Ver . 2 ... remark ought to be carried along with the reader throughout the work ; and without this cau- tion he will be apt to ...
... REMARKS . 20 the restoration of the empire of dulness in Britain , which is not accomplished till the last . Ver . 2 ... remark ought to be carried along with the reader throughout the work ; and without this cau- tion he will be apt to ...
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