The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 3J. Balfour, 1764 |
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Page vi
... Gentlemen had not procured me ( I suppose from some of themselves , for they are generally much more dan- gerous friends than enemies ) the paffages I fend you . I folemnly proteft I have added nothing to the malice . or abfurdity of ...
... Gentlemen had not procured me ( I suppose from some of themselves , for they are generally much more dan- gerous friends than enemies ) the paffages I fend you . I folemnly proteft I have added nothing to the malice . or abfurdity of ...
Page viii
... Gentlemen will fall upon one , in an affair where- in his interest and reputation are equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , complain of being put in- to the number of ...
... Gentlemen will fall upon one , in an affair where- in his interest and reputation are equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , complain of being put in- to the number of ...
Page xiii
... Gentleman was of Scotland , and bred at the Univer- fity of Utrecht , with the Earl of Mar. He ferved in Spain under Earl Rivers . After the Peace , he was made one of the Com- miffioners of the Cuftoms in Scotland , and then of Taxes ...
... Gentleman was of Scotland , and bred at the Univer- fity of Utrecht , with the Earl of Mar. He ferved in Spain under Earl Rivers . After the Peace , he was made one of the Com- miffioners of the Cuftoms in Scotland , and then of Taxes ...
Page xxvii
... gentleman appears " to have changed his fentiment in his Effay on the " Art of finking in reputation , ( printed in Mift's Jour- nal , March 30. 1728. ) where he fays thus : " in order " to fink in reputation , let him take into his ...
... gentleman appears " to have changed his fentiment in his Effay on the " Art of finking in reputation , ( printed in Mift's Jour- nal , March 30. 1728. ) where he fays thus : " in order " to fink in reputation , let him take into his ...
Page xxix
... gentleman ( who is a friend of our author ) employed by Mr Ad- dison to translate it after him , fince he faith himself that he did it before Y. Contrariwife , that Mr Addifon engaged our author in this work , appeareth by decla- ration ...
... gentleman ( who is a friend of our author ) employed by Mr Ad- dison to translate it after him , fince he faith himself that he did it before Y. Contrariwife , that Mr Addifon engaged our author in this work , appeareth by decla- ration ...
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