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Page 208
What but their wish indulg'd in courts to shine , And pow'r too great to keep , or to resign ? When first the college rolls receive his name , The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame ; Through all his veins the fever of renown ...
What but their wish indulg'd in courts to shine , And pow'r too great to keep , or to resign ? When first the college rolls receive his name , The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame ; Through all his veins the fever of renown ...
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I wish , Sir , to repeal the Boston Port Bill , because ( independently of the dangerous precedent of suspending the rights of the subject during the king's pleasure ) it was passed , as I apprehend , with less regularity , and on more ...
I wish , Sir , to repeal the Boston Port Bill , because ( independently of the dangerous precedent of suspending the rights of the subject during the king's pleasure ) it was passed , as I apprehend , with less regularity , and on more ...
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Let us imitate their caution , if we wish to deserve their fortune , or to retain their bequests . Let us add , if we please , but let us preserve what they have left ; and standing on the firm ground of the British constitution ...
Let us imitate their caution , if we wish to deserve their fortune , or to retain their bequests . Let us add , if we please , but let us preserve what they have left ; and standing on the firm ground of the British constitution ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
Copyright | |
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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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