Memoires Of The Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq; Faithfully Collected from Authentic Authors; Original Manuscripts, and the Testimonies of Manx Persons of Credit and Honour: With Critical Observations. Adorned with the Heads of Divers Illustrious Persons, Treated of in These Memoirs, Curiously Engrav'd by the Best Hands, Nide 2his Majesty's Authority, For the Author, 1745 |
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... thought would please the lower Set of the Audience , to which Part , to this Day , that Sort of People ftill make their Court . He added , that his chief Bufinefs would be , to render the Text fo that it might read , and be free from ...
... thought would please the lower Set of the Audience , to which Part , to this Day , that Sort of People ftill make their Court . He added , that his chief Bufinefs would be , to render the Text fo that it might read , and be free from ...
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... thought ) Shakespear's ; but " whether this Line be his or not , he proves Shake" Spear to have writ as bad . " And introducing the above Quotation , as if written by fome Author , he goes on in Mr. Theobald's reftoring Way to amend ...
... thought ) Shakespear's ; but " whether this Line be his or not , he proves Shake" Spear to have writ as bad . " And introducing the above Quotation , as if written by fome Author , he goes on in Mr. Theobald's reftoring Way to amend ...
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... Thought fo wonderfully magnified , or clouded ? The only Obfcurity , that I can yet find in the Paffage , is in Mr. Pope's clouding it by Mifunderstanding . For if he will take a fimple Defcription of Beauty to be the Defcription of a ...
... Thought fo wonderfully magnified , or clouded ? The only Obfcurity , that I can yet find in the Paffage , is in Mr. Pope's clouding it by Mifunderstanding . For if he will take a fimple Defcription of Beauty to be the Defcription of a ...
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William Ayre. Painter's drawing a fine Lady's Picture , where the Thought feems to me every whit as much magnified , and as dark at the firft Glance . -But her EyesHow could he fee to do them ! Having done one , Methinks it fhould have ...
William Ayre. Painter's drawing a fine Lady's Picture , where the Thought feems to me every whit as much magnified , and as dark at the firft Glance . -But her EyesHow could he fee to do them ! Having done one , Methinks it fhould have ...
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... Thoughts . Our Language ( fays he ) is noble , full , and fignificant ; " and I know not why he , who is Master of it ... Thought of that Master of a Show in Smithfield , who writ in large Letters over the Picture of his Elephant , This ...
... Thoughts . Our Language ( fays he ) is noble , full , and fignificant ; " and I know not why he , who is Master of it ... Thought of that Master of a Show in Smithfield , who writ in large Letters over the Picture of his Elephant , This ...
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