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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Page xviii
... thought Mr. Addison the aggressor , expected him to condescend , and own himself the cause of the breach betweer . them . But he was disappointed ; for Mr. Addison , without appearing to be angry , was quite overcome with it . He began ...
... thought Mr. Addison the aggressor , expected him to condescend , and own himself the cause of the breach betweer . them . But he was disappointed ; for Mr. Addison , without appearing to be angry , was quite overcome with it . He began ...
Page xxi
... thought both equally good ? to such an one the part of joining with any one body of Christians might perhaps be easy , but I think it woula not be so to renounce the other . " Your Lordship has formerly advised me to read he best ...
... thought both equally good ? to such an one the part of joining with any one body of Christians might perhaps be easy , but I think it woula not be so to renounce the other . " Your Lordship has formerly advised me to read he best ...
Page xxv
... 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 any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ought to have been , but every thing ...
... 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 any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ought to have been , but every thing ...
Page xxvi
... thought she had ( through a prodigious and almost superstitious fond- ness for Homer ) endeavoured to make him appear without any fault or weakness , and stamp a perfec ion on his works which is no where to be Axvi LIFE OF POPE .
... thought she had ( through a prodigious and almost superstitious fond- ness for Homer ) endeavoured to make him appear without any fault or weakness , and stamp a perfec ion on his works which is no where to be Axvi LIFE OF POPE .
Page xxx
... thought that , if the thing had been written by another , I should have deemed the town in some measure mis- taken ; and as to your apprehension that this may do us future injury , do not think of it ; the Doctor has a more valuabe name ...
... thought that , if the thing had been written by another , I should have deemed the town in some measure mis- taken ; and as to your apprehension that this may do us future injury , do not think of it ; the Doctor has a more valuabe name ...
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