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A description of the false taste of magnificence ; the first grand error of which is to imagine that greatness consists in the size and djmensions , instead of the proportion and harmony of the whole , ver .
A description of the false taste of magnificence ; the first grand error of which is to imagine that greatness consists in the size and djmensions , instead of the proportion and harmony of the whole , ver .
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But notwithstanding this hazard of our taste from a multiplicity of reading , we are not , it seems , the least scrupulous in our choice of subject . We read whatever comes next us . What was first put into our hand when we were young ...
But notwithstanding this hazard of our taste from a multiplicity of reading , we are not , it seems , the least scrupulous in our choice of subject . We read whatever comes next us . What was first put into our hand when we were young ...
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She has a strong party abroad , and as strong a one within ourselves : and when any slight is put upon her she can soon turn the reproach , and make large reprisals on the taste and judgment of her antagonists .
She has a strong party abroad , and as strong a one within ourselves : and when any slight is put upon her she can soon turn the reproach , and make large reprisals on the taste and judgment of her antagonists .
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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