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POPE in this imitation has difcovered a fund of folid fenfe , and just observation upon * vice and folly , that are very remarkable in a perfon fo extremely young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison ...
POPE in this imitation has difcovered a fund of folid fenfe , and just observation upon * vice and folly , that are very remarkable in a perfon fo extremely young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison ...
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IMAGINE only fome perfon entirely a ftranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the fea or waters , how great his astonishment would be , when finding himself on board some veffel anchoring at sea , remote from all land ...
IMAGINE only fome perfon entirely a ftranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the fea or waters , how great his astonishment would be , when finding himself on board some veffel anchoring at sea , remote from all land ...
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... where the deity is fuddenly transformed into a plant ; from thence this metaphor of a vegetable is carried on diftinctly through the eleven fucceeding lines , till he fuddenly returns to confider Happinefs again as a perfon , in the ...
... where the deity is fuddenly transformed into a plant ; from thence this metaphor of a vegetable is carried on diftinctly through the eleven fucceeding lines , till he fuddenly returns to confider Happinefs again as a perfon , in the ...
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A graceful perfon , * Ver . 373 . Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this Effay are the following . Vol . iv . octavo edition , p . 223 & p . 324 ; p . 94 of vol .
A graceful perfon , * Ver . 373 . Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this Effay are the following . Vol . iv . octavo edition , p . 223 & p . 324 ; p . 94 of vol .
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I never knew a perfon that had fo tender a heart for his particular friends , or a warmer benevolence for all mankind . " It is to be hoped that Bolingbroke + profited by those remarkable His manner of reafoning and philofophifing has ...
I never knew a perfon that had fo tender a heart for his particular friends , or a warmer benevolence for all mankind . " It is to be hoped that Bolingbroke + profited by those remarkable His manner of reafoning and philofophifing has ...
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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 Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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