The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... saith my counsel , learned in the laws ? F. Your plea is good ; but still I say , beware ! Laws are explain'd by men — so have a care . It stands on record , that in Richard's times A man was hang'd for very honest rhymes . Consult the ...
... saith my counsel , learned in the laws ? F. Your plea is good ; but still I say , beware ! Laws are explain'd by men — so have a care . It stands on record , that in Richard's times A man was hang'd for very honest rhymes . Consult the ...
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... saith he was kept by his father on purpose ; a second , that he was an itinerant priest ; a third , that he was a parson ; one 8 1 Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets , vol . ii . in his Life . 2 Dennis's Reflections on the Essay on ...
... saith he was kept by his father on purpose ; a second , that he was an itinerant priest ; a third , that he was a parson ; one 8 1 Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets , vol . ii . in his Life . 2 Dennis's Reflections on the Essay on ...
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... saith he , which was published some months since , is a masterpiece in its kind . The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that 15 Essay on Criticism in prose , octavo , 1728 , by the author of ...
... saith he , which was published some months since , is a masterpiece in its kind . The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that 15 Essay on Criticism in prose , octavo , 1728 , by the author of ...
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... saith himself that he did it before.23 Contrariwise , 23 Vide Preface to Mr. Tickell's translation of the First Book of the Iliad , 4to . that Mr. Addison engaged our author in this work , TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS . 169.
... saith himself that he did it before.23 Contrariwise , 23 Vide Preface to Mr. Tickell's translation of the First Book of the Iliad , 4to . that Mr. Addison engaged our author in this work , TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS . 169.
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... ( saith MIST'S JOURNAL , JUNE 8 , 1728 , ) the sequel of that work , the Odyssey ; and having secured the success by a numerous subscription , he employed some underlings to perform what , according to his proposals , should come from his ...
... ( saith MIST'S JOURNAL , JUNE 8 , 1728 , ) the sequel of that work , the Odyssey ; and having secured the success by a numerous subscription , he employed some underlings to perform what , according to his proposals , should come from his ...
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