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" Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients may as well say our faces are not our own because they are like our fathers... "
The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical works - Page 234
by Richard Hurd - 1811
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...knowledge of the sense of our predecessors. Therefore Ihey who say our thoughts are not our own, because they resemble the Ancients may as well say our faces...expect us to be scholars, and yet be angry to find us so. I fairly confess that I have served myself all I could by reading; that I made use of the judgment...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...say our thoughts are not our own, because they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces arc not our own, because they are like our fathers : and...expect us to be scholars, and yet be angry to find us so. I fairly confess that I have served myself all I could by reading ; that I made use of the judgment...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...knowledge of the sense of our predecessors. Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own, because they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces...expect us to be scholars, and yet be angry to find us so. I fairly confess that I have served myself all I could by reading; that I made use of the judgment...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...sense of our predecessors. Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own, hecause they resemhle the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, hecause they are like our fathers; and indeed it is very unreasonahle that people should expect us...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...knowledge of the sense of our predecessors. Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own, because they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces...they are like our fathers : and indeed it is very uureasonable, that people should expect us to be scholars, and yet be avif.'1'y to find us so. I fairly...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...knowledge of the sense of oar predecessors. Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own, because they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our lathers : and indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be scholars, and yet...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...our own, because they resemble the ancirnts, may as well say our faces are not our own, because tliey are like our fathers : and indeed it is very unreasonable,...expect us to be scholars, and yet be angry to find us ^o. I fairly eonfpss, that 1 have served myself all I conld by rending; that I made use of the judgment...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...knowledge of the sense of our predecessors. Therefore they who say our thoughts arc not our o«n, because they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they arc like our fathers : and indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be scholars,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...ledge of the sense of our predecessors. Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own, because they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces...expect us to be scholars, and yet be angry to find us so. I fairly confess that I have served myself all I could by reading; that I made use of the judgment...
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Poems, Volume 1

Charles James - 1817 - 294 pages
...of our predecessors. Therefore, they who ' say our thoughts are not our own, because they resem' ble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our...expect us to ' be scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.' To conclude, I shall simply observe, that general criticism, without pointing out particular...
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