An Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from An Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man

T H E yufiice which I have now done. Mr Pope is agreeable to the public Voice. T his goes jb far, that I have fien je'veral of his Readers admire him, like the refi, tho' they did not under/band him, and ia deed were very far from under/tanding him. I am plea/ed with thinking that a few Lines from his Pen have had Credit enough to're concile the Vulgar to the Notion of a Plura lily of Worlds, which a great many Per/ons, even now, refufe to admit. However, this is a Notion that our Age has great Reafon to congratulate itfizlf upon; it feems to me to be of wry great Ufe to raife our Admiration of the incomprehenfible Infinity of our Cre ator.

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Excerpt from An Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man

My first Inclination carries me to acquiesce in whatever is propos'd to me. I have always need of Violence to bring myself to object, and nothing ever determines me to an Examination, but the Fear of deceiving myself, and afterwards drawing others into Mistakes. Besides, I am too well acquainted with the Charms of Poetry, to engage with a Poet who has already acquir'd so great a Name.

Thro' a Prose Translation I feel the Power of his Enthusiasm, I have never talk'd on this Subject with any one Person, who has not own'd that Mr Pope is at least a shining Author. It concerns the Interest of Mankind that Geniuses of this Character should be likewise judicious and circumspect.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.