An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Some manifeftly ferve for But * The Moralifts , pag . 130. After borrowing so largely from this treatife , our author fhould not methinks have ri- diculed it , as he does , in the Fourth Book of the Dunciad ; ver . 417 . Or that bright ...
... Some manifeftly ferve for But * The Moralifts , pag . 130. After borrowing so largely from this treatife , our author fhould not methinks have ri- diculed it , as he does , in the Fourth Book of the Dunciad ; ver . 417 . Or that bright ...
Page 192
... Some black - foul'd Fiend , fome Fury ris'n from hell Has darken'd all difcernment . Thro ' night's eye Saw the pale murderer stalk ! MEROPE . Ibid . Some hint's officious reach had touch'd her ear . One is furprized that fuch a writer ...
... Some black - foul'd Fiend , fome Fury ris'n from hell Has darken'd all difcernment . Thro ' night's eye Saw the pale murderer stalk ! MEROPE . Ibid . Some hint's officious reach had touch'd her ear . One is furprized that fuch a writer ...
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... Some fay his queen , was forc'd to fpeak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer cafe , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face † ? THE abruptnefs with which this story from Perfius is introduced , occafions an obfcurity in ...
... Some fay his queen , was forc'd to fpeak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer cafe , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face † ? THE abruptnefs with which this story from Perfius is introduced , occafions an obfcurity in ...
Page 257
... Some of his fpeeches in parliament were much beyond florid impotence . They were , it is true , in favour of Sir R. Walpole , and this was fufficiently offenfive to Pope . The fact that particularly incited his indignation , was Lord H ...
... Some of his fpeeches in parliament were much beyond florid impotence . They were , it is true , in favour of Sir R. Walpole , and this was fufficiently offenfive to Pope . The fact that particularly incited his indignation , was Lord H ...
Page 295
... Some few things may be expreffed a little hardly ; but none are I believe un- intelligible . " With refpect to the doctrines of the Effay on Man , I shall here insert an anecdote copied exactly from the papers of Mr. Spence , in the ...
... Some few things may be expreffed a little hardly ; but none are I believe un- intelligible . " With refpect to the doctrines of the Effay on Man , I shall here insert an anecdote copied exactly from the papers of Mr. Spence , in the ...
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