The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. PoemsB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, 1797 |
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... occafion , as it would have been for La Fontaine and Boileau to have listened to Patru , when he perfuaded the one not to attempt to write his Fables , and the other his Art of Poetry . Dennis , fome years after , attacked this ...
... occafion , as it would have been for La Fontaine and Boileau to have listened to Patru , when he perfuaded the one not to attempt to write his Fables , and the other his Art of Poetry . Dennis , fome years after , attacked this ...
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... occafion . b 3 " occafion . This furprise of Dr. Young , together ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . xxix.
... occafion . b 3 " occafion . This furprise of Dr. Young , together ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . xxix.
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Alexander Pope. " occafion . This furprise of Dr. Young , together " with what Steele has faid against Tickell in rela- ❝tion to this affair , makes it highly probable that " there was fome underhand dealing in that business ; " and ...
Alexander Pope. " occafion . This furprise of Dr. Young , together " with what Steele has faid against Tickell in rela- ❝tion to this affair , makes it highly probable that " there was fome underhand dealing in that business ; " and ...
Page xxxiv
... occafion Mallet addreffed to him an Epistle on Ver bal Criticifm ; full of affected contempt for a fort of learning with which Mallet , as well as Pope , was unacquainted . This Epistle procured him the friendship of Pope , who commends ...
... occafion Mallet addreffed to him an Epistle on Ver bal Criticifm ; full of affected contempt for a fort of learning with which Mallet , as well as Pope , was unacquainted . This Epistle procured him the friendship of Pope , who commends ...
Page xxxvii
... occafion Voltaire wrote to him a letter , which , as a specimen of his English , is here inferted in a note * . * " SIR , Swift , " I hear this moment of your fad adventure . That water you fell in , was not Hippocrene's water ...
... occafion Voltaire wrote to him a letter , which , as a specimen of his English , is here inferted in a note * . * " SIR , Swift , " I hear this moment of your fad adventure . That water you fell in , was not Hippocrene's water ...
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