An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... I lately received from one of his intimate friends , " I wrote things , faid Pore , I am ashamed to * Pag . 78 . tay say how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 29 We are now advanced, through many ...
... I lately received from one of his intimate friends , " I wrote things , faid Pore , I am ashamed to * Pag . 78 . tay say how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 29 We are now advanced, through many ...
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... faid , he was fometimes so far provoked , as even to be betrayed into an oath . His income was about three hun- dred pounds a year . Towards the latter part of his life , he shewed an aversion to the company of women , and would often ...
... faid , he was fometimes so far provoked , as even to be betrayed into an oath . His income was about three hun- dred pounds a year . Towards the latter part of his life , he shewed an aversion to the company of women , and would often ...
Page 51
... faid to have been mortified . But POPE observed on the occasion , " Brown is an excellent copyist , and those who take his imitations amiss , are much in the wrong ; they are very strongly mannered , and few perhaps could write so well ...
... faid to have been mortified . But POPE observed on the occasion , " Brown is an excellent copyist , and those who take his imitations amiss , are much in the wrong ; they are very strongly mannered , and few perhaps could write so well ...
Page 66
... faid I , neither ; this would be to rate him high indeed ! As if he were by nature , lord of all , which is more than I could willingly allow . ' Tis enough , replied he , that this is yielded . For if we allow once , a subordination in ...
... faid I , neither ; this would be to rate him high indeed ! As if he were by nature , lord of all , which is more than I could willingly allow . ' Tis enough , replied he , that this is yielded . For if we allow once , a subordination in ...
Page 96
... faid " This is one of the best truths you have ever uttered . I am not one of those sublime geniuses of whom you speak ; but such as I am , I must declare I have never wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly fatis ...
... faid " This is one of the best truths you have ever uttered . I am not one of those sublime geniuses of whom you speak ; but such as I am , I must declare I have never wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly fatis ...
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