The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 5C. a J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of Stay and Boscovick , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from some beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic poem on ...
... poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of Stay and Boscovick , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from some beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic poem on ...
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... poem is founded on what are called infidel principles , and is unfavourable to the doctrines of Christianity . This idea , though often before ex- pressed or insinuated , seems to have received its full sanction in the preceding ...
... poem is founded on what are called infidel principles , and is unfavourable to the doctrines of Christianity . This idea , though often before ex- pressed or insinuated , seems to have received its full sanction in the preceding ...
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... poem ; it may with safety be asserted that this infer- ence cannot be true . The Essay on Man , as it now appears , could at no time have existed in any form very different with respect to its doctrinal tenets from what it is at present ...
... poem ; it may with safety be asserted that this infer- ence cannot be true . The Essay on Man , as it now appears , could at no time have existed in any form very different with respect to its doctrinal tenets from what it is at present ...
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... poem , Sur la Religion , has alluded to Pope in the following lines , - " Sans doute qu'à ces mots des bords de la Tamise , Quelque abstrait raisonneur , qui ne se plaint de rien , Dans son flegme Anglican , repondra , " Tout est bien ...
... poem , Sur la Religion , has alluded to Pope in the following lines , - " Sans doute qu'à ces mots des bords de la Tamise , Quelque abstrait raisonneur , qui ne se plaint de rien , Dans son flegme Anglican , repondra , " Tout est bien ...
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... poem ; in which God is represented , not as identified with , but as modifying and controlling matter — as He 66 whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms . " Essay on Man , Ep . i . ver . 157 ...
... poem ; in which God is represented , not as identified with , but as modifying and controlling matter — as He 66 whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms . " Essay on Man , Ep . i . ver . 157 ...
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