An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756-1782)Garland Pub., 1974 - Verse satire, English |
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... , PRO- PERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking and C 4 and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 23 Promifitque diem; tanta dulcedine captos ...
... , PRO- PERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking and C 4 and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 23 Promifitque diem; tanta dulcedine captos ...
Page 73
... just reserve : profuse to none , but bountiful to all : never employing in one thing more than enough ; but with exact œconomy retrenching the fuperfluous , and adding force to what is principal in every thing . And is not thought and ...
... just reserve : profuse to none , but bountiful to all : never employing in one thing more than enough ; but with exact œconomy retrenching the fuperfluous , and adding force to what is principal in every thing . And is not thought and ...
Page 139
... just when they destroy * . £ THE ftrength and continuance of what our author calls the ruling paffion , is ftrongly exemplified in EIGHT characters ; namely , the POLITICIAN , the DEBAUCHEE , the GLUTTON , the OECONOMIST , the Co- QUET ...
... just when they destroy * . £ THE ftrength and continuance of what our author calls the ruling paffion , is ftrongly exemplified in EIGHT characters ; namely , the POLITICIAN , the DEBAUCHEE , the GLUTTON , the OECONOMIST , the Co- QUET ...
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