 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking; fmce a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern, and a pedant nothing that is not Creek. What I have done is fubmitted to the publickj from whofe opinions I am prepared to learn; tho'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...a few ; thofe only who have at once a tafte of poetry, and competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking...publick, from whofe opinions I am prepared to learn ; tho* I fear no judges fo little as our beft poets, who are moft fenfible of the weight of this tafk.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...a few ; thofe only who have at once a tafte of poetry, and competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking...publick, from whofe opinions I am prepared to learn ; tho' J fear no judges fo little as ourbeft poets, who are moft fenfible of the weight of this talk.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 368 pages
...competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking ; fim:ea mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern,...publick, from whofe opinions I am prepared to learn ; tho' I fear no judges fo little as our beft poets, who are mod fenfible of the weight of this tafk.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking j fmce a mere modern wit can like nothing that Is not modern,...done is fubmitted to the publick, from whofe opinions 1 am prepared to learn ; tho' I fear no judges fo little as our beft poets, who are moft fenfible of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...a few ; thofe only who have at once a tafte of poetry, and competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking;...fince a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not maJern, and a pedant nothing that is not Greek. What I have done is fubmitted to the publick, from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking ; fmce a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern,...publick, from whofe opinions I am prepared to learn ; tho' I fear no judges fo little as our t>eft poets, who are moft fenfible of the weight of this tafk,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...tafte of poetry, and competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the natiire of this undertaking ; fince a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modcriit and a pedant nothing that is not Greek. What I have done is fubmitted to the publicky from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...only who have at once a tafte of poetry, and competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as \\;ant cither, is not in the nature of this undertaking; fince a...is not Greek. What I have done is fubmitted to the pub'.ick, from whofe opinions I am prepared to learn; though 1 fear no judges fo little as our beft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...competent learning. For to fatisfy fuch as want either, is not in the nature of this, undertaking; fmce a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern,...What I have done is fubmitted to the Publick, from whole opinions I am prepared to learn ; though I fear. no judges fo little as our beft poets, who are... | |
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For to satisfy such as want either is not in the nature of this undertaking, since a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern, and a pedant nothing that is not Greek. 
