The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Volume 2S.A. Bascom, 1819 |
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... write , As Foplings grin to show their teeth are white : To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , Or madly blaze unknown defects , is vile : " Tis doubly vile , when , but to prove your art , You fix an arrow in a blameless heart . O ...
... write , As Foplings grin to show their teeth are white : To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , Or madly blaze unknown defects , is vile : " Tis doubly vile , when , but to prove your art , You fix an arrow in a blameless heart . O ...
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... Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN : ΤΟ H. ST . JOHN , LORD BOLINGBROKE . 1 THE DESIGN . HAVING proposed to write some pieces on.
... Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN : ΤΟ H. ST . JOHN , LORD BOLINGBROKE . 1 THE DESIGN . HAVING proposed to write some pieces on.
Page 49
... write some pieces on Human Life and Manners , such as ( to use my lord Bacon's ex- pression ) come home to Men's Business and Bosoms , I thought it more satisfactory to begin with considering Man in the abstract , his Nature and his ...
... write some pieces on Human Life and Manners , such as ( to use my lord Bacon's ex- pression ) come home to Men's Business and Bosoms , I thought it more satisfactory to begin with considering Man in the abstract , his Nature and his ...
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... writer indulges himself , to shew the fruitfulness of his fancy or inven tion . By dress , is to be understood a lower degree of that practice , in amplification of thought and ornamental expression , to give force to what the writer ...
... writer indulges himself , to shew the fruitfulness of his fancy or inven tion . By dress , is to be understood a lower degree of that practice , in amplification of thought and ornamental expression , to give force to what the writer ...
Page 148
... write , To draw the naked is your true delight . That Robe of Quality so struts and swells , None see what parts of Nature it conceals : 190 Th ' exactest traits of Body or of Mind , We own to Models of an humble kind . If Queensberry ...
... write , To draw the naked is your true delight . That Robe of Quality so struts and swells , None see what parts of Nature it conceals : 190 Th ' exactest traits of Body or of Mind , We own to Models of an humble kind . If Queensberry ...
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