The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son ... [and 24 others], 1806 |
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Page xvii
... fome may be thought needful to Mr. Pope : however , he cannot think our offence fo great as theirs , who first feparately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order . As for the Letters we have procured to be ...
... fome may be thought needful to Mr. Pope : however , he cannot think our offence fo great as theirs , who first feparately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order . As for the Letters we have procured to be ...
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... fome of them indeed to an ingenious perfon , who was fo delighted with the specimen , that he importuned me for a fight of the reft , which having obtained , he conveyed them to the press , I must not fay altogether with my confent ...
... fome of them indeed to an ingenious perfon , who was fo delighted with the specimen , that he importuned me for a fight of the reft , which having obtained , he conveyed them to the press , I must not fay altogether with my confent ...
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... fome fcandalous Reflections of one Le Neve on the Le- gislature , Courts of Justice , and Church of England , pag . 116 , 117. and the Divinity of Chrift exprefsly denied , in page 123 , 124. With fome fcandalous Anecdotes , and a ...
... fome fcandalous Reflections of one Le Neve on the Le- gislature , Courts of Justice , and Church of England , pag . 116 , 117. and the Divinity of Chrift exprefsly denied , in page 123 , 124. With fome fcandalous Anecdotes , and a ...
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... fome Letters written in his youth , which fell into the hands of a woman who printed them , without his , or his correfpondents ' confent , in 1727. This treatment , and the apprehenfion of more of the fame kind , put him upon recalling ...
... fome Letters written in his youth , which fell into the hands of a woman who printed them , without his , or his correfpondents ' confent , in 1727. This treatment , and the apprehenfion of more of the fame kind , put him upon recalling ...
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... fome friendships which will ever be dear to him , or fet in a true light fome matters of fact , from which the fcribblers of the times had taken occafion to asperse either his friends or himself . He therefore layed by the Originals ...
... fome friendships which will ever be dear to him , or fet in a true light fome matters of fact , from which the fcribblers of the times had taken occafion to asperse either his friends or himself . He therefore layed by the Originals ...
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