An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 12
... said a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to be feen the A person who tranflated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat hastam ...
... said a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to be feen the A person who tranflated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat hastam ...
Page 20
... said on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion * and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always refpected † , found him in an unusual ...
... said on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion * and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always refpected † , found him in an unusual ...
Page 96
... said— " This is one of the best truths you have ever uttered . I am not one of those sublime geniuses of whom you fpeak ; but fuch as I am , I muft declare I have never wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly ...
... said— " This is one of the best truths you have ever uttered . I am not one of those sublime geniuses of whom you fpeak ; but fuch as I am , I muft declare I have never wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly ...
Page 100
... said the great Bishop Butler , had lived to fee the candor and moderation of the present times , in difcuffing religious fubjects , he would have been a good christian . more more attentive than we are to self - prefer- vation I 100 ...
... said the great Bishop Butler , had lived to fee the candor and moderation of the present times , in difcuffing religious fubjects , he would have been a good christian . more more attentive than we are to self - prefer- vation I 100 ...
Page 124
... said , that POPE will go fo deep into the argument , or carry it so far as I have hinted , * The Effay on Man was elegantly , but unfaithfully , tranflated into French verfe by M. Du Refnel . It was more accurately rendered into French ...
... said , that POPE will go fo deep into the argument , or carry it so far as I have hinted , * The Effay on Man was elegantly , but unfaithfully , tranflated into French verfe by M. Du Refnel . It was more accurately rendered into French ...
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