The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... pass'd , Turn'd critics next , and proved plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , numerous in our isle , As half - form'd insects on ...
... pass'd , Turn'd critics next , and proved plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , numerous in our isle , As half - form'd insects on ...
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... passes with- out intervention of time or change of place . A pause makes a new act . In every real , and there- fore in ... pass . This method would at once quell a thousand absurdities . In restoring the authour's works to their integ ...
... passes with- out intervention of time or change of place . A pause makes a new act . In every real , and there- fore in ... pass . This method would at once quell a thousand absurdities . In restoring the authour's works to their integ ...
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... pass with- out praise : commentaries which attract the reader by the pleasure of perusal have not often ap- peared ; the notes of others are read to clear diffi- culties , those of Pope to vary entertainment . It has , however , been ...
... pass with- out praise : commentaries which attract the reader by the pleasure of perusal have not often ap- peared ; the notes of others are read to clear diffi- culties , those of Pope to vary entertainment . It has , however , been ...
Contents
Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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