The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volumes 1-2Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - 616 pages |
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... appear . But the whole libel was proved a malicious story by many persons of distinction , who several years before Mr. Addison's decease , approved those verses denominated a libel , but which were , it is said , a friendly rebuke ...
... appear . But the whole libel was proved a malicious story by many persons of distinction , who several years before Mr. Addison's decease , approved those verses denominated a libel , but which were , it is said , a friendly rebuke ...
Page xviii
... appearing to be angry , was quite overcome with it . He began with declaring that he always had wished him well , had often endeavoured to be his friend , and in that light advised him , if his nature was capable of it , to divest ...
... appearing to be angry , was quite overcome with it . He began with declaring that he always had wished him well , had often endeavoured to be his friend , and in that light advised him , if his nature was capable of it , to divest ...
Page xix
... appear that Mr. Pope was the aggressor . If Mr. Addison entertained suspicions of Mr. Pope's being carried too far among the enemy , the danger was certainly Mr. Pope's , and not Mr. Addison's . It was his misfortune , and not his crime ...
... appear that Mr. Pope was the aggressor . If Mr. Addison entertained suspicions of Mr. Pope's being carried too far among the enemy , the danger was certainly Mr. Pope's , and not Mr. Addison's . It was his misfortune , and not his crime ...
Page xx
... appear as if Mr. Addison were himself so immersed in party business as to contract his benevo lence to the limits of a faction , which was infinitely beneath the views of a philosopher , and the rules which that excellent writer himself ...
... appear as if Mr. Addison were himself so immersed in party business as to contract his benevo lence to the limits of a faction , which was infinitely beneath the views of a philosopher , and the rules which that excellent writer himself ...
Page xxv
... appear very false , and entirely contrary to what the greatest of ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , that it is the most regular garden , and laid out with more symmetry , than ...
... appear very false , and entirely contrary to what the greatest of ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , that it is the most regular garden , and laid out with more symmetry , than ...
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