The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page xv
... thought Mr. Addison the aggressor , expected him to condescend , and own himself the cause of the breach between them . But he was disappointed ; for Mr. Addison , with- out appearing to be angry , was quite overcome with it . He began ...
... thought Mr. Addison the aggressor , expected him to condescend , and own himself the cause of the breach between them . But he was disappointed ; for Mr. Addison , with- out appearing to be angry , was quite overcome with it . He began ...
Page xix
... thought both equally good ? to such 66 an one the part of joining with any one body of " Christians might perhaps be easy , but I think it " would not be so to renounce the other . 66 " Your Lordship has formerly advised me to read ...
... thought both equally good ? to such 66 an one the part of joining with any one body of " Christians might perhaps be easy , but I think it " would not be so to renounce the other . 66 " Your Lordship has formerly advised me to read ...
Page xxii
... thought . 66 " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , " that it is the most regular garden , and laid out " with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every " thing therein is not only in the place it ought " " to have been ...
... thought . 66 " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , " that it is the most regular garden , and laid out " with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every " thing therein is not only in the place it ought " " to have been ...
Page xxiv
... thought she had ( through a prodigious and almost superstitious fondness for Homer ) endeavoured to make him ap- pear without any fault or weakness , and stamp a perfection on his works which is no where to be found . He wrote her a ...
... thought she had ( through a prodigious and almost superstitious fondness for Homer ) endeavoured to make him ap- pear without any fault or weakness , and stamp a perfection on his works which is no where to be found . He wrote her a ...
Page xxv
... thoughts towards some- hing that might be of lasting use to the world , and engage no more in a war with dunces , who were now effectually humbled . Our great dramatic poet Shakespeare had passed through several hands , some of whom ...
... thoughts towards some- hing that might be of lasting use to the world , and engage no more in a war with dunces , who were now effectually humbled . Our great dramatic poet Shakespeare had passed through several hands , some of whom ...
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