The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield1794 |
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... writer to have failed in an expreffion , or erred in any particular point and can it then be wondered at , if the poets in general feem refolved not to own themselves in any error ? B For For as long as one fide will make no allowances.
... writer to have failed in an expreffion , or erred in any particular point and can it then be wondered at , if the poets in general feem refolved not to own themselves in any error ? B For For as long as one fide will make no allowances.
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... write in their clofets , and of idle men who read there . + Yet , fure , upon the whole , a bad author deferves bet- ter ufage than a bad critic : ‡ for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails ...
... write in their clofets , and of idle men who read there . + Yet , fure , upon the whole , a bad author deferves bet- ter ufage than a bad critic : ‡ for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails ...
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Alexander Pope Gilbert Wakefield. experiment by writing , and appealing to the judgment of others . Now , if he happens to write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) , he is immediately made an ob- ject of ridicule . I wish we had ...
Alexander Pope Gilbert Wakefield. experiment by writing , and appealing to the judgment of others . Now , if he happens to write ill ( which is certainly no fin in itself ) , he is immediately made an ob- ject of ridicule . I wish we had ...
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... write ; † and I published , because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please . To what degree I ... writing for amusement and correcting for pleasure , not disputable in themselves , are proved by the perfection of his ...
... write ; † and I published , because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please . To what degree I ... writing for amusement and correcting for pleasure , not disputable in themselves , are proved by the perfection of his ...
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... writer , as the power of rejecting his own thoughts ; and it must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have published , I can only hope to be pardoned ; but for what I have burned , I deferve to be ...
... writer , as the power of rejecting his own thoughts ; and it must be this ( if any thing ) that can give me a chance to be one . For what I have published , I can only hope to be pardoned ; but for what I have burned , I deferve to be ...
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