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... POPE , GOLDSMITH , SWIFT , WATTS , BACON , & c . In The SPECTATOR , TATLER and GUARDIAN will be complete in 60 Numbers , at 6d . forming 2 elegant volumes , containing the whole of what is sually printed in 14 volumes . Weekly Nos ...
... POPE , GOLDSMITH , SWIFT , WATTS , BACON , & c . In The SPECTATOR , TATLER and GUARDIAN will be complete in 60 Numbers , at 6d . forming 2 elegant volumes , containing the whole of what is sually printed in 14 volumes . Weekly Nos ...
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... Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; ' and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley ...
... Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; ' and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley ...
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... Pope , as being " that which has been often thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly ... Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and re- duces it from ...
... Pope , as being " that which has been often thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly ... Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and re- duces it from ...
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... Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly more amiable to common readers , and perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom courtesy ...
... Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly more amiable to common readers , and perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom courtesy ...
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... Pope ; * after whose names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarcely a corner of the island not dig- nified either by rhyme or blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspec- ted ...
... Pope ; * after whose names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarcely a corner of the island not dig- nified either by rhyme or blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspec- ted ...
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