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... virtue , fo much condemned Boileau , that it was with great difficulty he was brought to read his Works , and be reconciled to him . The authors that Pope profcribed were in truth to mean and contemptible , that Swift said , " Give me a ...
... virtue , fo much condemned Boileau , that it was with great difficulty he was brought to read his Works , and be reconciled to him . The authors that Pope profcribed were in truth to mean and contemptible , that Swift said , " Give me a ...
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... virtues of the mind . Curl fet up his head for a fign . + His Father was crooked . tt His mother was much afflicted with head - achs . NOTES . the compliments on his infirmities and deformities , he mentions his eye , which was fine ...
... virtues of the mind . Curl fet up his head for a fign . + His Father was crooked . tt His mother was much afflicted with head - achs . NOTES . the compliments on his infirmities and deformities , he mentions his eye , which was fine ...
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... Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , 285 Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs neighbour's peace , Infults fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lie , lame Slander helps about , Who writes ...
... Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , 285 Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs neighbour's peace , Infults fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lie , lame Slander helps about , Who writes ...
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... Virtue's better end , NOTES . 340 VER . 322. Or blafphemies . ] In former editions thefe two lines followed immediately : Did ever Smock - face a & fo vile a part , A trifling head , and a corrupted heart . VER . 340. That not in ...
... Virtue's better end , NOTES . 340 VER . 322. Or blafphemies . ] In former editions thefe two lines followed immediately : Did ever Smock - face a & fo vile a part , A trifling head , and a corrupted heart . VER . 340. That not in ...
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... Virtue ! all the paft : For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome ev'n the last ! 355 A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? P. A knave's a knave to me , in ev'ry flate : Alike my fcorn , if he fucceed or fail , 361 Sporus at court ...
... Virtue ! all the paft : For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome ev'n the last ! 355 A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? P. A knave's a knave to me , in ev'ry flate : Alike my fcorn , if he fucceed or fail , 361 Sporus at court ...
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