Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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Page 39
... true , I have fome doubt ; for at Paris , a few years ago , a niece of Mrs. Fermor , who prefided in an English Convent , men- tioned Pope's work with very little gra- titude , rather as an infult than an honour ; and fhe may be ...
... true , I have fome doubt ; for at Paris , a few years ago , a niece of Mrs. Fermor , who prefided in an English Convent , men- tioned Pope's work with very little gra- titude , rather as an infult than an honour ; and fhe may be ...
Page 102
... true , Pope made his complaint with frankness and fpirit , as a man un- defervedly neglected or oppofed ; and Addifon affected a contemptuous un- concern , and , in Addi- 102 POPE . "acted as mafter of requests.-Then he ...
... true , Pope made his complaint with frankness and fpirit , as a man un- defervedly neglected or oppofed ; and Addifon affected a contemptuous un- concern , and , in Addi- 102 POPE . "acted as mafter of requests.-Then he ...
Page 121
... true . The first copy of Pope's books , with those of Fenton , are to be feen in the Museum . The parts of Pope are less interlined than the Iliad , and the latter books of the Iliad lefs than the former . He grew dexterous by practice ...
... true . The first copy of Pope's books , with those of Fenton , are to be feen in the Museum . The parts of Pope are less interlined than the Iliad , and the latter books of the Iliad lefs than the former . He grew dexterous by practice ...
Page 134
... true obfervation , " that no people are fo impatient of " cenfure as thofe who are the greatest " flanderers , which was wonderfully " exemplified on this occafion . On the day the book was firft vended , a " crowd of authors befieged ...
... true obfervation , " that no people are fo impatient of " cenfure as thofe who are the greatest " flanderers , which was wonderfully " exemplified on this occafion . On the day the book was firft vended , a " crowd of authors befieged ...
Page 135
... falfe editions of the book " having an owl in their frontispiece , " the true one , to distinguish it , fixed in " its ftead an afs laden with authors , " Then I 4 " Then another furreptitious one being . printed with the POPE . 135.
... falfe editions of the book " having an owl in their frontispiece , " the true one , to distinguish it , fixed in " its ftead an afs laden with authors , " Then I 4 " Then another furreptitious one being . printed with the POPE . 135.
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