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 41806 |
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Page 91
... feems to allude , rather than to what Tully mentions in the second book De Oratore , of their amufing themselves in pick- ing up fhells and pebbles on the fea - fhore . Bolingbroke is here represented as pouring out himself to his ...
... feems to allude , rather than to what Tully mentions in the second book De Oratore , of their amufing themselves in pick- ing up fhells and pebbles on the fea - fhore . Bolingbroke is here represented as pouring out himself to his ...
Page 93
... feems to have been particularly fond of those ex- quifite morfels of wit and genius , the old Æfopic fables . He fre- quently alludes to them , but always with a brevity very different from our modern writers of fable . Even the natural ...
... feems to have been particularly fond of those ex- quifite morfels of wit and genius , the old Æfopic fables . He fre- quently alludes to them , but always with a brevity very different from our modern writers of fable . Even the natural ...
Page 103
... feems to have had in his eye a paffage of Lucilius , quoted by Macrobius : " Sed et Lucilius acer et violentus poeta , oftendit fcire fe hunc pifcem egregii faporis , qui inter duos pontes captus effet . " WARTON . m Porrectum magno ...
... feems to have had in his eye a paffage of Lucilius , quoted by Macrobius : " Sed et Lucilius acer et violentus poeta , oftendit fcire fe hunc pifcem egregii faporis , qui inter duos pontes captus effet . " WARTON . m Porrectum magno ...
Page 125
... feems to run , When the brisk Minor pants for Twenty - one : So flow th ' unprofitable moments roll , That lock up all the Functions of my foul ; That keep me from myfelf ; and ftill delay Life's inftant bufinefs to a future day : S ...
... feems to run , When the brisk Minor pants for Twenty - one : So flow th ' unprofitable moments roll , That lock up all the Functions of my foul ; That keep me from myfelf ; and ftill delay Life's inftant bufinefs to a future day : S ...
Page 137
... his tranfcendental abilities . He feems in no inftance to have acted from fteady principles . He would have compromifed , after George the First was called to Cum fis , et prave fectum ftomacheris ob unguem , I the EP . I. 137 OF HORACE .
... his tranfcendental abilities . He feems in no inftance to have acted from fteady principles . He would have compromifed , after George the First was called to Cum fis , et prave fectum ftomacheris ob unguem , I the EP . I. 137 OF HORACE .
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