An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... firft fight appear para- doxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildeft chimeras in thofe books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a ...
... firft fight appear para- doxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildeft chimeras in thofe books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a ...
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... firft due to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetia , where it is entitled Vifio Francifci Philel- phi ; from hence Rabelais inferted it , under another title , in his third book and twenty- eighth ...
... firft due to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetia , where it is entitled Vifio Francifci Philel- phi ; from hence Rabelais inferted it , under another title , in his third book and twenty- eighth ...
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... firft delight ; Admiring in the gloomy fhade , Those little drops of light . * Spenfer and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whofe ...
... firft delight ; Admiring in the gloomy fhade , Those little drops of light . * Spenfer and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whofe ...
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... firft Dutch war , his ballad on knotting , and on Lewis XIV . may be named as examples of this happy talent , and as confutations of a fentiment of the * to uncork a bottle , they could not find their bottle - fcrew , which was fallen ...
... firft Dutch war , his ballad on knotting , and on Lewis XIV . may be named as examples of this happy talent , and as confutations of a fentiment of the * to uncork a bottle , they could not find their bottle - fcrew , which was fallen ...
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... Firft if thou can't the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less * . VOLTAIRE , in the late additions to his works , has the following remarkable words . " I own it flatters me to fee that POPE has fallen upon ...
... Firft if thou can't the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less * . VOLTAIRE , in the late additions to his works , has the following remarkable words . " I own it flatters me to fee that POPE has fallen upon ...
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