The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: SatiresB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, 1797 |
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... English rage ; Where ribaldry to fatire makes pretence , And modern fcandal rolls with antient fense : Whilst on one fide we fee how Horace thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good ...
... English rage ; Where ribaldry to fatire makes pretence , And modern fcandal rolls with antient fense : Whilst on one fide we fee how Horace thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good ...
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... English language are fo interefting , and contain fuch marks of Christian refignation and calmness of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inserted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He ...
... English language are fo interefting , and contain fuch marks of Christian refignation and calmness of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inserted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He ...
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... English verses . He was pretty difficult to please , and would often fend the boy back to new - turn them . When they were to his mind , he took great pleasure in them , and would fay , These are good rhymes . From Mr. Spense . W. The ...
... English verses . He was pretty difficult to please , and would often fend the boy back to new - turn them . When they were to his mind , he took great pleasure in them , and would fay , These are good rhymes . From Mr. Spense . W. The ...
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... English Homer ; and that , being earnestly pressed to declare his fentiments freely , he faid , " The verfes are good verses , but the work is not Homer , it is Spondanus . " It may , however , be obferved , in favour of Pope , that Dr ...
... English Homer ; and that , being earnestly pressed to declare his fentiments freely , he faid , " The verfes are good verses , but the work is not Homer , it is Spondanus . " It may , however , be obferved , in favour of Pope , that Dr ...
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... English tongue , to be fenfible of all the charms of his works . For my part , I look upon his poem called the Effay on Criticism as superior to the Art of Poetry of Horace ; and his Rape of the Lock is , in my opinion , above the ...
... English tongue , to be fenfible of all the charms of his works . For my part , I look upon his poem called the Effay on Criticism as superior to the Art of Poetry of Horace ; and his Rape of the Lock is , in my opinion , above the ...
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