An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Joseph Warton. • thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on Man from the fourth of Boileau , and the tenth Satire of Horace , are the only pieces of this profligate nobleman , which modesty or common fenfe will allow any man to ...
Joseph Warton. • thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on Man from the fourth of Boileau , and the tenth Satire of Horace , are the only pieces of this profligate nobleman , which modesty or common fenfe will allow any man to ...
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... thing by you , I am determined . This was all faid and done with his usual seriousness on fuch occafions : And in fpite of every thing we could fay to the contrary , he actually obliged us to take the money . " SECT . SECT . IX . Of the ...
... thing by you , I am determined . This was all faid and done with his usual seriousness on fuch occafions : And in fpite of every thing we could fay to the contrary , he actually obliged us to take the money . " SECT . SECT . IX . Of the ...
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... things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- scriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the Syphilis of Fracaftorius ...
... things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- scriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the Syphilis of Fracaftorius ...
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... things mutually relative , à mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonifts , and by Antoninus and Simplicius . In ...
... things mutually relative , à mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonifts , and by Antoninus and Simplicius . In ...
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... things To low ambition , and the pride of kings ; Let us ( fince life can little more fupply Than just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan . EPIST . I. V. 1 ...
... things To low ambition , and the pride of kings ; Let us ( fince life can little more fupply Than just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan . EPIST . I. V. 1 ...
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