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Pagina 124
... human nature , by contemplating life from its highest grada- tions to its lowest ; and , had he afterwards applied to dramatick poetry , he would perhaps not have had many superiors ; for as he never suffered any scene to pass before ...
... human nature , by contemplating life from its highest grada- tions to its lowest ; and , had he afterwards applied to dramatick poetry , he would perhaps not have had many superiors ; for as he never suffered any scene to pass before ...
Pagina 242
... human shape , as his unthinking immaterial part does from human understanding . ' Thus began the hostility between Pope and Dennis , which , though it was suspended for a short time , never was appeased . Pope seems , at first , to have ...
... human shape , as his unthinking immaterial part does from human understanding . ' Thus began the hostility between Pope and Dennis , which , though it was suspended for a short time , never was appeased . Pope seems , at first , to have ...
Pagina 293
... Human characters are by no means constant ; men change by change of place , of fortune , of acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure , is at another a lover of money . Those indeed who attain any excel- lence , commonly ...
... Human characters are by no means constant ; men change by change of place , of fortune , of acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure , is at another a lover of money . Those indeed who attain any excel- lence , commonly ...
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