The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page xiii
... rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no rival near the throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering ...
... rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no rival near the throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering ...
Page xvii
... rules which that excellent writer himself esta blished . If this was the failing of Mr. Addison , it was not the error of Pope , for he kept the strictest correspondence with some persons whose affections to the Whig interest were ...
... rules which that excellent writer himself esta blished . If this was the failing of Mr. Addison , it was not the error of Pope , for he kept the strictest correspondence with some persons whose affections to the Whig interest were ...
Page xxv
... rules of it ; but this was to clear the scenes from the rub- bish with which ignorant editors had filled them . His proper business in this work was to render B the text so clear as to be generally understood , LIFE OF POPE . XXV.
... rules of it ; but this was to clear the scenes from the rub- bish with which ignorant editors had filled them . His proper business in this work was to render B the text so clear as to be generally understood , LIFE OF POPE . XXV.
Page xxxiii
... rules of his own establishing ; and though they owed to him the ability of judg- ing , they seldom had candor enough to spare him . Perhaps it may be true that Pope's works are read with more appetite , as there is a greater even- ness ...
... rules of his own establishing ; and though they owed to him the ability of judg- ing , they seldom had candor enough to spare him . Perhaps it may be true that Pope's works are read with more appetite , as there is a greater even- ness ...
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... rule- Then drop into thyself , and be a fool ! Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly , shape , And show'd a Newton as we show an ape . Could He , whose rules the ...
... rule- Then drop into thyself , and be a fool ! Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly , shape , And show'd a Newton as we show an ape . Could He , whose rules the ...
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