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Pope caught an averfion to this excellent man from BOLINGBROKE , who hated CLARKE , not only because he had written a book , which this declamatory philosopher could not confute , but because he was a favourite of Queen CAROLINE .
Pope caught an averfion to this excellent man from BOLINGBROKE , who hated CLARKE , not only because he had written a book , which this declamatory philosopher could not confute , but because he was a favourite of Queen CAROLINE .
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Because God made these large , the other less t . Very inferior to the original ; and principally so , because that pleasant stroke is omitted , of the eater's knowing in what part of the river the Lupus I was taken , Ver . 31 . + Ver .
Because God made these large , the other less t . Very inferior to the original ; and principally so , because that pleasant stroke is omitted , of the eater's knowing in what part of the river the Lupus I was taken , Ver . 31 . + Ver .
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He stuck to describing modern manners ; but those manners , because they are familiar , uniform , artificial , and polished , are , in their very nature , unfit for any lofty effort of the Muse .
He stuck to describing modern manners ; but those manners , because they are familiar , uniform , artificial , and polished , are , in their very nature , unfit for any lofty effort of the Muse .
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4, reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0576021202, 9780576021203 |
| Length | 423 pages |
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