The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... rules , ⚫ And not like Forty other Fools : As thus : " Vouchfafe , oh Gracious Maker ! * To grant me this and t'other Acre : " Or , if it be thy Will and Pleasure , " Direct my Plow to find a Treasure : " But only what my Station fits ...
... rules , ⚫ And not like Forty other Fools : As thus : " Vouchfafe , oh Gracious Maker ! * To grant me this and t'other Acre : " Or , if it be thy Will and Pleasure , " Direct my Plow to find a Treasure : " But only what my Station fits ...
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... rule , that guides , but not constrains ; And finish'd more thro ' happiness than pains . 60 65 3 The kindred Arts fhall in their praise conspire , One dip the pencil , and one string the lyre . Yet fhould the Graces all thy figures ...
... rule , that guides , but not constrains ; And finish'd more thro ' happiness than pains . 60 65 3 The kindred Arts fhall in their praise conspire , One dip the pencil , and one string the lyre . Yet fhould the Graces all thy figures ...
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... Rules of the Ancients , for the generation of Children of Wit . He ordered his diet according to the prescription of Galen , confining himself and his wife for almoft the whole first year to Goat's Milk and Honey . It unfortunately ...
... Rules of the Ancients , for the generation of Children of Wit . He ordered his diet according to the prescription of Galen , confining himself and his wife for almoft the whole first year to Goat's Milk and Honey . It unfortunately ...
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... rules of the pureft Antiquity , in relation to the Exercifes of his Son . He was ftript , powdered , and anointed , but not conftantly bathed , which occafioned many heavy complaints of the Laundrefs about dirtying his linen . When he ...
... rules of the pureft Antiquity , in relation to the Exercifes of his Son . He was ftript , powdered , and anointed , but not conftantly bathed , which occafioned many heavy complaints of the Laundrefs about dirtying his linen . When he ...
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... Rules of Logick are Spectacles to a purblind understanding , and therefore he refolved to proceed with his two pupils . * When a learned Friend once urged to our Author the Autho- rity of a famous Dictionary - maker against the Latinity ...
... Rules of Logick are Spectacles to a purblind understanding , and therefore he refolved to proceed with his two pupils . * When a learned Friend once urged to our Author the Autho- rity of a famous Dictionary - maker against the Latinity ...
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