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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the ... - Page 26
by Alexander Pope - 1806
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so rt, Of Shakspeare's nature, and ofCowley's wit ; How Beaumont's judgment check'd wh consist so much in advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeahle turn....
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very ion, imagination, and constitution. Devotion, when it does not lie under do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well eularged upon in the preface to his works : that wit and fine writing doth not consist so mu; h in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeahle...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the Preface to his Works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...so very well enlarged upon in the preface to hiĀ» works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an t agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, 9 who live in the later ages of the world, to make observations...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so cries : Amidst the host the fallen serpent lies. They, pale with terror, mark its s consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn....
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Bcileau has so very do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileaa has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : that wit and h'ne writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new as in giving things that are...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn....
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