The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: SatiresB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, 1797 |
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... best parts of the Me- moirs of Scriblerus , the Art of Political Lying , the Freeholder's Catechifm , It cannot rain but it pours , & c . abound in strokes of the most exquifite humour . It is known that he gave numberlefs hints to ...
... best parts of the Me- moirs of Scriblerus , the Art of Political Lying , the Freeholder's Catechifm , It cannot rain but it pours , & c . abound in strokes of the most exquifite humour . It is known that he gave numberlefs hints to ...
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... best performances , and find that he pleases the town moft when he is moft out of humour with the court . He has made very free with his gracious majefty , in the Epistle to Auguftus . But he had loft his favourite bill ; even my Lord ...
... best performances , and find that he pleases the town moft when he is moft out of humour with the court . He has made very free with his gracious majefty , in the Epistle to Auguftus . But he had loft his favourite bill ; even my Lord ...
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... Account of Poets ; by Steele , in a dedication to the Spectator ; by Tickell , to his Homer . The ridicule on the Hind and Panther was the best of Halifax's compofitions . His Library ( where bufts of Poets dead And a 36 PROLOGUE.
... Account of Poets ; by Steele , in a dedication to the Spectator ; by Tickell , to his Homer . The ridicule on the Hind and Panther was the best of Halifax's compofitions . His Library ( where bufts of Poets dead And a 36 PROLOGUE.
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... best of his poems , in which are many strokes of genuine humour and pictures of London - life , which are now become curious , because our man- ners , as well as our dreffes , have been so much altered and changed within a few years ...
... best of his poems , in which are many strokes of genuine humour and pictures of London - life , which are now become curious , because our man- ners , as well as our dreffes , have been so much altered and changed within a few years ...
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... best Poet of England , and at prefent of all the world . I hope you are ac- quainted enough with 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 ...
... best Poet of England , and at prefent of all the world . I hope you are ac- quainted enough with 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 ...
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