The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 - English literature |
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... Hands and Seals first had and obtained , as they and every of them , offending herein , will answer the contrary at their Perils ; whereof the Maf- ter , Wardens , and Company of Stationers of Our City of London , the Commiffioners and ...
... Hands and Seals first had and obtained , as they and every of them , offending herein , will answer the contrary at their Perils ; whereof the Maf- ter , Wardens , and Company of Stationers of Our City of London , the Commiffioners and ...
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... hand can fet " them in fo good a light . " . Let . exx . to Mr. W. b " I alfo give and bequeath to the faid Mr. Warburton , the property of all fuch of my Works already printed as he hath written or fhall write Commentaries or Notes up ...
... hand can fet " them in fo good a light . " . Let . exx . to Mr. W. b " I alfo give and bequeath to the faid Mr. Warburton , the property of all fuch of my Works already printed as he hath written or fhall write Commentaries or Notes up ...
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... hand , he delivered to the Edi- tor a little before his death . The Juvenile translations , in the other part of the SE- COND Volume , it was never his intention to bring into this Edition of his Works , on account of the levity of fome ...
... hand , he delivered to the Edi- tor a little before his death . The Juvenile translations , in the other part of the SE- COND Volume , it was never his intention to bring into this Edition of his Works , on account of the levity of fome ...
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... hands , to throw dirt upon the Shrine , gives scandal even to Barbarians . And tho ' Rome per- mitted her flaves to calumniate her beft Citizens on the day of Triumph , yet the fame petulancy at their Funeral would have been rewarded ...
... hands , to throw dirt upon the Shrine , gives scandal even to Barbarians . And tho ' Rome per- mitted her flaves to calumniate her beft Citizens on the day of Triumph , yet the fame petulancy at their Funeral would have been rewarded ...
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... hand no fingle man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the reft ; so on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and time of any particular person should be facrificed to its entertainment ...
... hand no fingle man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the reft ; so on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and time of any particular person should be facrificed to its entertainment ...
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