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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... common injuries revenged on this pernicious Tribe ; yet , as our Author's friend and phyfician , he was folicitous of his ease and health ; and therefore unwilling he fhould provoke fo large and powerful a party . Their difference of ...
... common injuries revenged on this pernicious Tribe ; yet , as our Author's friend and phyfician , he was folicitous of his ease and health ; and therefore unwilling he fhould provoke fo large and powerful a party . Their difference of ...
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... common lot of distinction . But it was his peculiar illfortune to create a jealousy in One ; whom , not only many good offices done by our Author to him and his friends , but a fimilitude of genius and studies might have inclined to a ...
... common lot of distinction . But it was his peculiar illfortune to create a jealousy in One ; whom , not only many good offices done by our Author to him and his friends , but a fimilitude of genius and studies might have inclined to a ...
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... common life ; and the fenfation is the more pleafing to us , because admiration is turned into affection . In the very entertaining Memoirs of the Life of Racine ( published by his fon ) we find no paffage more amusing and interesting ...
... common life ; and the fenfation is the more pleafing to us , because admiration is turned into affection . In the very entertaining Memoirs of the Life of Racine ( published by his fon ) we find no paffage more amusing and interesting ...
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... common , besides a comprehensive knowledge of life and manners , and a certain curious felicity of expreffion , which confifts in ufing the fimpleft language with dignity , and the most ornamented with cafe . For the reft , his harmony ...
... common , besides a comprehensive knowledge of life and manners , and a certain curious felicity of expreffion , which confifts in ufing the fimpleft language with dignity , and the most ornamented with cafe . For the reft , his harmony ...
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... common brothers fhould have different inclinations . And afterwards , Ver . 51 . " My chief pleasure is to write Satires like Lucilius , " fays Horace . " My chief pleasure , " fays Pope , " is - what ? to speak my mind freely and ...
... common brothers fhould have different inclinations . And afterwards , Ver . 51 . " My chief pleasure is to write Satires like Lucilius , " fays Horace . " My chief pleasure , " fays Pope , " is - what ? to speak my mind freely and ...
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Page 21 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 413 - His similes are like pictures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable to the original, but is also set off with occasional ornaments and prospects.
Page 215 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
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Page 20 - It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred...
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| Title | 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 4 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, William Lisle Bowles |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | William Lisle Bowles |
| Published | 1806 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 28, 2006 |
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