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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... , are marked with asperity and coarseness , as he was evidently chagrined at the success which he could not gain himself . Hence his coarse and contemptu- ous Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence TO THE SATIRES . 27.
... , are marked with asperity and coarseness , as he was evidently chagrined at the success which he could not gain himself . Hence his coarse and contemptu- ous Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence TO THE SATIRES . 27.
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Alexander Pope William Lisle Bowles. Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence , And all they want is spirit , taste , and sense . Commas and points they fet exactly right , And ' twere a fin to rob them of their mite . Yet ne'er ...
Alexander Pope William Lisle Bowles. Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence , And all they want is spirit , taste , and sense . Commas and points they fet exactly right , And ' twere a fin to rob them of their mite . Yet ne'er ...
Page 139
... studying , & c . " " He pleas'd , because he studied not to please . " ” Perhaps , too , the verses would run better , if , instead of " A " Town , with spiring towers is crown'd ; " you were to put , " with spiring turrets crown'd ...
... studying , & c . " " He pleas'd , because he studied not to please . " ” Perhaps , too , the verses would run better , if , instead of " A " Town , with spiring towers is crown'd ; " you were to put , " with spiring turrets crown'd ...
Page 168
... this perfectly true of Shakespear , but not of Ben Jonson ; who was not made , as was Shakespear , a poet by accident , but had spent his life in a close 1 study And melt " down Ancients like a heap of snow 168 BOOK II . IMITATIONS.
... this perfectly true of Shakespear , but not of Ben Jonson ; who was not made , as was Shakespear , a poet by accident , but had spent his life in a close 1 study And melt " down Ancients like a heap of snow 168 BOOK II . IMITATIONS.
Page 169
... study of the art . And as some of his plays , particularly the Silent Woman , were the first models of just comedy in our lan- guage , he could not , with propriety , be substituted for the ruder writers of Rome . The expression in ...
... study of the art . And as some of his plays , particularly the Silent Woman , were the first models of just comedy in our lan- guage , he could not , with propriety , be substituted for the ruder writers of Rome . The expression in ...
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