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Page 102
... fuch a knowledge of the world , fuch a maturity of judgment , and fuch a penetration into human nature , as are here displayed , in so very young a writer as was POPE , when he produced this ESSAY ; for he was not twenty years old ...
... fuch a knowledge of the world , fuch a maturity of judgment , and fuch a penetration into human nature , as are here displayed , in so very young a writer as was POPE , when he produced this ESSAY ; for he was not twenty years old ...
Page 183
... fuch words as these are to be found : " As my lord bishop cannot write himself , at his request I have fubfcribed . " They were at the fame time so profligate , as to publish Ab- folutions for any one who had killed his fa- ther ...
... fuch words as these are to be found : " As my lord bishop cannot write himself , at his request I have fubfcribed . " They were at the fame time so profligate , as to publish Ab- folutions for any one who had killed his fa- ther ...
Page 401
... fuch judges a fund of ridicule . They must needs nau- feate the fcenes that lie in Eumeus's cottage , and despise the coarse ideas of fo ill - bred a princefs as Nauficaa . Much less can fuch effeminate judges bear the bold and severe ...
... fuch judges a fund of ridicule . They must needs nau- feate the fcenes that lie in Eumeus's cottage , and despise the coarse ideas of fo ill - bred a princefs as Nauficaa . Much less can fuch effeminate judges bear the bold and severe ...
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