The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ... |
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Albi , nostroruin sermonum , candide judex , Quid nunc te dicam facere in
regione Pedana ? Scribere , quod Cassî Parmensis opuscula vincat . The lines
here quoted occur in the Essay on Man . § An tacitum silvas inter reptare
salubres ?
Albi , nostroruin sermonum , candide judex , Quid nunc te dicam facere in
regione Pedana ? Scribere , quod Cassî Parmensis opuscula vincat . The lines
here quoted occur in the Essay on Man . § An tacitum silvas inter reptare
salubres ?
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HERE rests a woman , good without pretence , Bless'd with plain reason , and
with sober sense ; No conquest she , but o'er herself , desired , No arts essay'd ,
but not to be admired . Passion and pride were to her soul unknown , Convinced
...
HERE rests a woman , good without pretence , Bless'd with plain reason , and
with sober sense ; No conquest she , but o'er herself , desired , No arts essay'd ,
but not to be admired . Passion and pride were to her soul unknown , Convinced
...
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mirers , nor promised in return to be theirs : that had truly been a sign he was of
their acquaintance : but would not the malicious world have suspected such an
approbation of some motive worse than ignorance in the author of the Essay on ...
mirers , nor promised in return to be theirs : that had truly been a sign he was of
their acquaintance : but would not the malicious world have suspected such an
approbation of some motive worse than ignorance in the author of the Essay on ...
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In one point I must be allowed to think the charac made upon 1 Essay on
Criticism , in French verse , by General Hamilton ; the same , in verse also , by
Monsieur Roboton , counsellor and privy secretary to King George I. after by the
abbe ...
In one point I must be allowed to think the charac made upon 1 Essay on
Criticism , in French verse , by General Hamilton ; the same , in verse also , by
Monsieur Roboton , counsellor and privy secretary to King George I. after by the
abbe ...
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... differ as much concerning his tutor . One saith , he was kept by his father on
purpose ; a second , that he was an 1 Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets , vol . ii . in
his Life . 2 Dennis's Reflections on the Essay on Criticism . 3 Dunciad Dissected ,
p ...
... differ as much concerning his tutor . One saith , he was kept by his father on
purpose ; a second , that he was an 1 Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets , vol . ii . in
his Life . 2 Dennis's Reflections on the Essay on Criticism . 3 Dunciad Dissected ,
p ...
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Страница 14 - What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P.