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Page viii
... must add the wonderful prefervation of it ; which is such throughout his plays , that , had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the perfons , I believe , one might have apply'd them with certainty to every speaker ...
... must add the wonderful prefervation of it ; which is such throughout his plays , that , had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the perfons , I believe , one might have apply'd them with certainty to every speaker ...
Page ix
... must be own'd , that with all these great excellencies , he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better , fo he has , perhaps , written worse , than any other . But I think , I can in some measure account ...
... must be own'd , that with all these great excellencies , he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better , fo he has , perhaps , written worse , than any other . But I think , I can in some measure account ...
Page xii
... must be charg'd upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But , I think , the two disadvantages which I have mention'd ( to be obliged to please the lowest of people , and to keep the worst of company ) if the confideration ...
... must be charg'd upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But , I think , the two disadvantages which I have mention'd ( to be obliged to please the lowest of people , and to keep the worst of company ) if the confideration ...
Page xv
... is utter'y inconfiftent with mistakes like these . Nay the conftant blunders in proper names of persons and places , are such as must have proceeded C proceeded from a mån , who had not so much MR . POPE'S PREFACE . XV.
... is utter'y inconfiftent with mistakes like these . Nay the conftant blunders in proper names of persons and places , are such as must have proceeded C proceeded from a mån , who had not so much MR . POPE'S PREFACE . XV.
Page xxi
... must be allowed , that in one of these there are materials enough to make many of the other . It has much the greater variety , and much the nobler apartments ; though we are often conducted to them by dark , odd , and uncouth passages ...
... must be allowed , that in one of these there are materials enough to make many of the other . It has much the greater variety , and much the nobler apartments ; though we are often conducted to them by dark , odd , and uncouth passages ...
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