The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volume 11806 |
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... Essay on Criticism caused all the fubfequent unkindness between him and Dennis ; and the Rape of the Lock was the commencement of the misunderstanding with Ad- difon . Pope was now in the twenty - third year of his age ( 1711 ) , but he ...
... Essay on Criticism caused all the fubfequent unkindness between him and Dennis ; and the Rape of the Lock was the commencement of the misunderstanding with Ad- difon . Pope was now in the twenty - third year of his age ( 1711 ) , but he ...
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... Essay , and the Rape of the Lock , made three ad- versaries , at least such as he thought he had reason to conclude were his adversaries ; Phillips , Dennis , and Addison . But the cause of his imputing enmity and jealoufy This ...
... Essay , and the Rape of the Lock , made three ad- versaries , at least such as he thought he had reason to conclude were his adversaries ; Phillips , Dennis , and Addison . But the cause of his imputing enmity and jealoufy This ...
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... essay ; though it is no more than Swift , and almost all writers of all ages , ( generously excepting them- selves , ) have faid of the age in which they lived . This , which an unsuspicious man would not have thought of , and which a ...
... essay ; though it is no more than Swift , and almost all writers of all ages , ( generously excepting them- selves , ) have faid of the age in which they lived . This , which an unsuspicious man would not have thought of , and which a ...
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... Essay you mention ; the two " first Epistles are already well done , and if you try , I cd wish it " were on the last , which is less abstracted , and more easily falls " into poetry and common place . A few lines , at the beginning ...
... Essay you mention ; the two " first Epistles are already well done , and if you try , I cd wish it " were on the last , which is less abstracted , and more easily falls " into poetry and common place . A few lines , at the beginning ...
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... Essay on Criticifm . † Whatever might have been his defects , he could not be faid to have many bad qualities , who never loft a friend , and whom Arbuthnot , Gay , Bathurst , Lyttelton , Fortescue , and Murray , esteemed and loved ...
... Essay on Criticifm . † Whatever might have been his defects , he could not be faid to have many bad qualities , who never loft a friend , and whom Arbuthnot , Gay , Bathurst , Lyttelton , Fortescue , and Murray , esteemed and loved ...
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