The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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Page iii
... of the THIRD Volume , must be added a great number of fine verses , taken from the Author's Manufcript - copies of these poems , communicated by him for this pur- pofe to the Editor . Thefe , the Author , a 2 ADVERTISEMENT . iii.
... of the THIRD Volume , must be added a great number of fine verses , taken from the Author's Manufcript - copies of these poems , communicated by him for this pur- pofe to the Editor . Thefe , the Author , a 2 ADVERTISEMENT . iii.
Page ix
... must have a strange impotency of mind indeed whom fuch mi- ferable fcriblers can be supposed to ruffle . Of all that grofs Beotian phalanx who have written fcurriloufly against me , I know not so much as One whom a writer of reputation ...
... must have a strange impotency of mind indeed whom fuch mi- ferable fcriblers can be supposed to ruffle . Of all that grofs Beotian phalanx who have written fcurriloufly against me , I know not so much as One whom a writer of reputation ...
Page xiii
... must expect to hear no more truth , than if he were a Prince , or a Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit , for one man of fenfe ) his living thus in a courfe of flattery may put him in no fmall ...
... must expect to hear no more truth , than if he were a Prince , or a Beauty . If he has not very good fenfe ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit , for one man of fenfe ) his living thus in a courfe of flattery may put him in no fmall ...
Page xiv
... must have the conftancy of a martyr , and a refolution to fuffer for its fake . I could with people would believe , what I am pretty certain they will not , that I have been much less concerned about Fame than I durft declare till this ...
... must have the conftancy of a martyr , and a refolution to fuffer for its fake . I could with people would believe , what I am pretty certain they will not , that I have been much less concerned about Fame than I durft declare till this ...
Page xvi
... must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have publifhed , I can only hope to be pardoned ; but for what I have burn'd , 1 deferve to be prais'd . On this account the world is under fome obligation ...
... must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have publifhed , I can only hope to be pardoned ; but for what I have burn'd , 1 deferve to be prais'd . On this account the world is under fome obligation ...
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