The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes, Complete. With Notes and Illustrations by Joseph Warton, D.D. and Others, Volumen 3B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 |
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... most in need of fuch ornaments . Nevertheless there are too many lines , in this performance , plain and profaic . The meaner the fub- ject is of a preceptive poem , the more ftriking appears the art of the poet : It is even of use ...
... most in need of fuch ornaments . Nevertheless there are too many lines , in this performance , plain and profaic . The meaner the fub- ject is of a preceptive poem , the more ftriking appears the art of the poet : It is even of use ...
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... most formal treatises of philofophy ; " yet neither can we affent to the fevere sentence that Dr. Johnson has passed on the other hand ; namely , " that penury of know- ledge , and vulgarity of fentiment , were never so happily ...
... most formal treatises of philofophy ; " yet neither can we affent to the fevere sentence that Dr. Johnson has passed on the other hand ; namely , " that penury of know- ledge , and vulgarity of fentiment , were never so happily ...
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... most exceptionable . " To this teftimony of Richardfon , which is decifive , I will now add , that Lord Lyttelton , with his ufual frankness and ingenuity , affured me , that he had frequently talked with Pope on the sub- ject , whose ...
... most exceptionable . " To this teftimony of Richardfon , which is decifive , I will now add , that Lord Lyttelton , with his ufual frankness and ingenuity , affured me , that he had frequently talked with Pope on the sub- ject , whose ...
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... most . But that of afcribing juftice and goodnefs to him , according to our notions of them , might be better covered , and was enough for his purpose , though not lefs really abfurd . " Vol . iv . p . 298 . It is somewhat remarkable ...
... most . But that of afcribing juftice and goodnefs to him , according to our notions of them , might be better covered , and was enough for his purpose , though not lefs really abfurd . " Vol . iv . p . 298 . It is somewhat remarkable ...
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... most falfe and pernicious tenets of Hobbes was the debafing and disparaging human nature , and saying , that man was to man a wolf ; and attempting , as Cudworth expreffes it , to " villanize mankind . " VER . 35. Prefumptuous Man ...
... most falfe and pernicious tenets of Hobbes was the debafing and disparaging human nature , and saying , that man was to man a wolf ; and attempting , as Cudworth expreffes it , to " villanize mankind . " VER . 35. Prefumptuous Man ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 43 - Fabricator ac Dominus non erit nunquam, nufquam." Mr. Pope ; " Breathes in our foul, informs our mortal part, " As full, as perfeft, in a hair as heart...