The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author |
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Page iv
... proud of his no- new sources of knowledge , by making himself ac- tice : Wycherley wrote verses in his praise , which quainted with modern languages ; and removed for he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself ; a time to London ...
... proud of his no- new sources of knowledge , by making himself ac- tice : Wycherley wrote verses in his praise , which quainted with modern languages ; and removed for he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself ; a time to London ...
Page x
... proud walls lie level with the ground : Between this manuscript , which is written upon accidental fragments of paper , and the printed edi- tion , there must have been an intermediate copy , that was perhaps destroyed as it returned ...
... proud walls lie level with the ground : Between this manuscript , which is written upon accidental fragments of paper , and the printed edi- tion , there must have been an intermediate copy , that was perhaps destroyed as it returned ...
Page xiv
... proud of their defects , he extracted thority , that Tonson thought himself entitled by an ornament from an inconvenience , and vanity annexing it , to demand a subscription of six guineas produced a grotto where necessity enforced a ...
... proud of their defects , he extracted thority , that Tonson thought himself entitled by an ornament from an inconvenience , and vanity annexing it , to demand a subscription of six guineas produced a grotto where necessity enforced a ...
Page xvii
... proud that they had read it before ; he is proud that to make that disbelieved which he never had con- the edition was taken off by the nobility and per- fidence openly to deny . He wrote an exculpatory sons of the first distinction ...
... proud that they had read it before ; he is proud that to make that disbelieved which he never had con- the edition was taken off by the nobility and per- fidence openly to deny . He wrote an exculpatory sons of the first distinction ...
Page xxxv
... proud of sition before a rigid critic , I should not select the his acquisitions , and , supposing himself master of Essay on Man ; ' for it contains more lines unsuc- great secrets , was in haste to teach what he had cessfully laboured ...
... proud of sition before a rigid critic , I should not select the his acquisitions , and , supposing himself master of Essay on Man ; ' for it contains more lines unsuc- great secrets , was in haste to teach what he had cessfully laboured ...
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