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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... fome fecret decree of Hea- ven for crimes unknown . But though he offended in becoming an Author , he offended in nothing else . For his early verses were perfectly innocent and harmless , " Like gentle Fanny's was my flowing theme , A ...
... fome fecret decree of Hea- ven for crimes unknown . But though he offended in becoming an Author , he offended in nothing else . For his early verses were perfectly innocent and harmless , " Like gentle Fanny's was my flowing theme , A ...
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... fome lines , which no provocation from woman to man could justify : I need not point them out . Let us alfo remember , that Satire in verfe must be deliberate , and therefore is lefs excufable . I am not attempting to plead the cause of ...
... fome lines , which no provocation from woman to man could justify : I need not point them out . Let us alfo remember , that Satire in verfe must be deliberate , and therefore is lefs excufable . I am not attempting to plead the cause of ...
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... fome correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : " The Players and I are luckily no friends . This is fo uncommon an inftance of your checking your temper , and taking a little fhame to ...
... fome correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : " The Players and I are luckily no friends . This is fo uncommon an inftance of your checking your temper , and taking a little fhame to ...
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... fome thoughts of introducing " by a quite different contrivance ; but my defign taking air , fome " of your sharp wits , I found , had made use of it before me ; " otherwise I intended to have fiolen one of them in the shape of a MUMMY ...
... fome thoughts of introducing " by a quite different contrivance ; but my defign taking air , fome " of your sharp wits , I found , had made use of it before me ; " otherwise I intended to have fiolen one of them in the shape of a MUMMY ...
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... fome expect a bribe ; And others roar aloud , " Subscribe , subscribe " Time , praise , or money , is the least they crave ; Yet each declares the other , fool or knave . NOTES . VER . 115. There are , who to my perfon ] What Addifon ...
... fome expect a bribe ; And others roar aloud , " Subscribe , subscribe " Time , praise , or money , is the least they crave ; Yet each declares the other , fool or knave . NOTES . VER . 115. There are , who to my perfon ] What Addifon ...
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