The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volume 41806 |
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Page 12
... striking parts of their works . He was so neglectful of his writings that his children tore his manuscripts and made paper - kites of them . Few letters in the English language are so interesting , and contain such marks of Christian ...
... striking parts of their works . He was so neglectful of his writings that his children tore his manuscripts and made paper - kites of them . Few letters in the English language are so interesting , and contain such marks of Christian ...
Page 28
... striking marks of accurate and extensive erudition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his strange and abfurd hypothesis of the faults which Milton's amanuenfis introduced into that poem . But I have ...
... striking marks of accurate and extensive erudition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his strange and abfurd hypothesis of the faults which Milton's amanuenfis introduced into that poem . But I have ...
Page 51
... striking figure , and was certainly poffefsed of wit and talents , if not of great parts . Some of his verses are written with great elegance and beauty , and are particularly animated . Lady M. W. Montagu in her letter calls him ...
... striking figure , and was certainly poffefsed of wit and talents , if not of great parts . Some of his verses are written with great elegance and beauty , and are particularly animated . Lady M. W. Montagu in her letter calls him ...
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... striking in the original ; and as to Pope , if Bethel always " spoke what he thought , and always thought as he ought , " we cannot be impressed with the fagenes of his remarks . The chief merit of Horace is the language , and in this ...
... striking in the original ; and as to Pope , if Bethel always " spoke what he thought , and always thought as he ought , " we cannot be impressed with the fagenes of his remarks . The chief merit of Horace is the language , and in this ...
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... striking . Lucian has five pleasant dialogues on the subject , from page 343 to 363 , in the Quarto Edition of Hemsterhufius . Horace himself ap- pears to have failed more in expofing this folly , than in any other of his Satires ; and ...
... striking . Lucian has five pleasant dialogues on the subject , from page 343 to 363 , in the Quarto Edition of Hemsterhufius . Horace himself ap- pears to have failed more in expofing this folly , than in any other of his Satires ; and ...
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