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... beft . Alluding to Mr. P.'s and Tickeil's Tranflation of the firft Book of the Iliad . : NOTES . after the pamphlet was printed . The very next day , Mr. Pope , in great heat , wrote Mr. Addifon a Letter , wherein he told him , he was ...
... beft . Alluding to Mr. P.'s and Tickeil's Tranflation of the firft Book of the Iliad . : NOTES . after the pamphlet was printed . The very next day , Mr. Pope , in great heat , wrote Mr. Addifon a Letter , wherein he told him , he was ...
Page 30
... beft performances , and find that he pleases the town moft when he is moft out of humour with the court . He has made very free with his gracious majefty , in the Epiftle to Auguftus . But he had loft his favourite bill ; even my Lord ...
... beft performances , and find that he pleases the town moft when he is moft out of humour with the court . He has made very free with his gracious majefty , in the Epiftle to Auguftus . But he had loft his favourite bill ; even my Lord ...
Page 31
... . The ridicule on the Hind and Panther was the beft of Halifax's compofitions . VER . 236. △ true Pindár flood without a head ] Ridicules the affecta- Receiv'd of wits an undiftinguifh'd race , Who firft his TO THE SATIRES . 31.
... . The ridicule on the Hind and Panther was the beft of Halifax's compofitions . VER . 236. △ true Pindár flood without a head ] Ridicules the affecta- Receiv'd of wits an undiftinguifh'd race , Who firft his TO THE SATIRES . 31.
Page 41
... beft Poet of England , and at present of all the world . I hope you are acquainted enough with the English tongue , to be fenfible of all the charms of his works . For my part , I look upon his poem called the Essay on Criticijm as ...
... beft Poet of England , and at present of all the world . I hope you are acquainted enough with the English tongue , to be fenfible of all the charms of his works . For my part , I look upon his poem called the Essay on Criticijm as ...
Page 58
... beft good men in metre , ] The best good Man , a City phrafe for the richef . Metre - not used here purely to help the verse , but to fhew what it is a Citizen efteems the greateft aggravation of the offence . W. VER . 41. What should ...
... beft good men in metre , ] The best good Man , a City phrafe for the richef . Metre - not used here purely to help the verse , but to fhew what it is a Citizen efteems the greateft aggravation of the offence . W. VER . 41. What should ...
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