The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 страница |
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... obfcure man made his way to fame , through the ftill paths of life , than to pry into the intrigues of minifters , or gape at the atchievements of heroes . B 3 Add Add to this , that in the histories of ftatefmen ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 5.
... obfcure man made his way to fame , through the ftill paths of life , than to pry into the intrigues of minifters , or gape at the atchievements of heroes . B 3 Add Add to this , that in the histories of ftatefmen ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 5.
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... ftill , as he affures us , he read without any defign but that of pleasing himself . He profecuted fuch ftudies as accident threw in his way , or as the caprice of fancy inclined him to pursue . He used to obferve , that , during this ...
... ftill , as he affures us , he read without any defign but that of pleasing himself . He profecuted fuch ftudies as accident threw in his way , or as the caprice of fancy inclined him to pursue . He used to obferve , that , during this ...
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... ftill nature , though metho- dized . This he explains by a happy illuftra- tion , wherein he gives a juft definition of liberty ; from whence we may perceive how effentially it differs from that licentiousness , which too often ufurps ...
... ftill nature , though metho- dized . This he explains by a happy illuftra- tion , wherein he gives a juft definition of liberty ; from whence we may perceive how effentially it differs from that licentiousness , which too often ufurps ...
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... the antients . - Tranfported with their beauties , he breaks out into a kind of rapturous exclamation , on con- templating the rare felicity of thofe few who ftill fland ftand green with bays ; and turns towards their manes 78 THE LIFE OF.
... the antients . - Tranfported with their beauties , he breaks out into a kind of rapturous exclamation , on con- templating the rare felicity of thofe few who ftill fland ftand green with bays ; and turns towards their manes 78 THE LIFE OF.
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... ftill remain , let them be vented againft abfcenity and impiety . Here he takes occafion to brand the fat age of pleasure " When Love was all an easy monarch's care . " There is great merit in the following beauti- ful lines , in which ...
... ftill remain , let them be vented againft abfcenity and impiety . Here he takes occafion to brand the fat age of pleasure " When Love was all an easy monarch's care . " There is great merit in the following beauti- ful lines , in which ...
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