An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 51
... if they were not fo . -In POPE's imitation of the fixth epiftle of Horace , there were two remarkable lines , 22 - E 2 the objects as they really exift in life , like Ha- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 51 judicious M. de Montefquieu, who in his ...
... if they were not fo . -In POPE's imitation of the fixth epiftle of Horace , there were two remarkable lines , 22 - E 2 the objects as they really exift in life , like Ha- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 51 judicious M. de Montefquieu, who in his ...
Page 60
... remarkable paffage in " I confefs I did never one of his letters . imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and agreeably in that fcience , from any one head . I ...
... remarkable paffage in " I confefs I did never one of his letters . imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and agreeably in that fcience , from any one head . I ...
Page 66
... remarkable words . " I own it flatters me to fee that POPE has fallen upon the very fame fentiment which I had entertained many years ago . " " Vous vous étonnez que Dieu ait fait l'homme fi borné , fi ignorant , fi peu heureux . Que ne ...
... remarkable words . " I own it flatters me to fee that POPE has fallen upon the very fame fentiment which I had entertained many years ago . " " Vous vous étonnez que Dieu ait fait l'homme fi borné , fi ignorant , fi peu heureux . Que ne ...
Page 99
... remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome ex- tracts from it , when he firft wrote his fa- mous article of the Paulicians , in his * That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the savage faves ; Nay ...
... remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome ex- tracts from it , when he firft wrote his fa- mous article of the Paulicians , in his * That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the savage faves ; Nay ...
Page 120
... remarkable * His manner of reasoning and philofophifing has been fo happily caught in a piece entitled A Vindication of Natural Society ; that many , even acute readers , miftook it for a genuine difcourfe of the author whom it was ...
... remarkable * His manner of reasoning and philofophifing has been fo happily caught in a piece entitled A Vindication of Natural Society ; that many , even acute readers , miftook it for a genuine difcourfe of the author whom it was ...
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