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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Page xiii
... please them at any rate . Methinks , as on the one 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 ...
... please them at any rate . Methinks , as on the one 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 ...
Page xiv
... please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a Cri- tic's is to put them out of humour ; a defign he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . I think a good deal may be ...
... please his Readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a Cri- tic's is to put them out of humour ; a defign he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . I think a good deal may be ...
Page xv
... please us , deferve fomething at our hands . We have no cause to quarrel with them but for their obstinacy in persisting to write ; and this too may admit of alleviating circumstances . Their particular friends may be either ignorant ...
... please us , deferve fomething at our hands . We have no cause to quarrel with them but for their obstinacy in persisting to write ; and this too may admit of alleviating circumstances . Their particular friends may be either ignorant ...
Page xvii
... please such as it was a credit to please . To what degree I have done VOL . I. C this , I am really ignorant ; I had too PREFACE . xvii.
... please such as it was a credit to please . To what degree I have done VOL . I. C this , I am really ignorant ; I had too PREFACE . xvii.
Page xxvii
... please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by Nature to the Antients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great mens fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ...
... please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by Nature to the Antients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great mens fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ...
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