The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Том 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... inftance of folly , when a- mongst the many excellent things that may be learned from antiquity , we find a modern writer only picking out their abfurdities . Aftrologer , Aftrologer , which each man alledged to have been in 100 MEMOIRS OF.
... inftance of folly , when a- mongst the many excellent things that may be learned from antiquity , we find a modern writer only picking out their abfurdities . Aftrologer , Aftrologer , which each man alledged to have been in 100 MEMOIRS OF.
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... excellent Pafcal's amazing genius for Mathematics in his early youth ; and fome trifling directions given for the introduction to the elements of Science , in Mr. Locke's book of Education . Who was taught Latin in his nurse's arms ...
... excellent Pafcal's amazing genius for Mathematics in his early youth ; and fome trifling directions given for the introduction to the elements of Science , in Mr. Locke's book of Education . Who was taught Latin in his nurse's arms ...
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... excellent , whether ancient or modern : If he had not always the au- thority , he had at least the art , to divert Corne- lius from many extravagancies . It was well he came fpeedily , or Martin could not have boafted the entire Quota ...
... excellent , whether ancient or modern : If he had not always the au- thority , he had at least the art , to divert Corne- lius from many extravagancies . It was well he came fpeedily , or Martin could not have boafted the entire Quota ...
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... excellent live Poets of this prefent age . We proceed therefore to Logick and Metaphyficks . The wife Cornelius was convinced , that these being Polemical Arts , could no more be learned alone , than Fencing or Cudgel - playing . He ...
... excellent live Poets of this prefent age . We proceed therefore to Logick and Metaphyficks . The wife Cornelius was convinced , that these being Polemical Arts , could no more be learned alone , than Fencing or Cudgel - playing . He ...
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... excellent Princefs Queen Anne ; surely that man deferves to be pitied , if by all thofe vifible Signs and Characters , he cannot diftinguish and acknowledge the Great Scriblerus * . * Gulliver's Travels were first intended as a part of ...
... excellent Princefs Queen Anne ; surely that man deferves to be pitied , if by all thofe vifible Signs and Characters , he cannot diftinguish and acknowledge the Great Scriblerus * . * Gulliver's Travels were first intended as a part of ...
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Страница 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
Страница 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Страница 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
Страница 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Страница 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
Страница 310 - ... of a trumpet. They roll along as a plentiful river, always in motion, and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of...
Страница 289 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.
Страница 300 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Страница 45 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.