 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal proud of his parts, and...opinions, and the projection of vain designs, they easily till with idle notions, till in time they make their plaything an author : their first diversion commonly... | |
 | 1885 - 932 pages
...malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, proud of his parts, and...court his kindness, or the notice of those who suffer Lim to court theirs. A head thus prepared for the reception of false opinions, and the projection of... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 pages
...malice of these beings has found ' means of enjoying, to which we have 'nothing equal or similar. They now and ' then catch a mortal, proud of his parts,...vain ' designs, they easily fill with idle notions, ' till, in time, they make their plaything an ' author ; their first diversion commonly ' begins with... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pages
...we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, proud of his parts, and nattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness,...vain designs, they easily fill with idle notions, till, in time, they make their plaything an author ; their first diversion commonly begins with an... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, proud of his parts, and...vain designs, they easily fill with idle notions, till, in time, they make their plaything an author; their first diversion commonly begins with an ode... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1893 - 324 pages
...we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, proud of his parts, and nattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness,...vain designs, they easily fill with idle notions, till, in time, they make their plaything an author ; their first diversion commonly begins with an... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 pages
...malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, proud of his parts, and...vain designs, they easily fill with idle notions, till, in time, they make their plaything an author ; their first diversion commonly begins with an... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 568 pages
...malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, proud of his parts, and...vain designs, they easily fill with idle notions, till, in time, they make their plaything an author ; their first diversion commonly begins with an... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 346 pages
...malice of these beings has found ' means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal 'or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, 'proud of his parts, and flattered either by the sub' mission of those who court his kindness, or the notice 'of those who suffer him to court theirs.... | |
 | 1909 - 304 pages
...disease, or amuse his leisure with the tossings and contortions of every possible pain exhibited together. the reception of false opinions and the projection...of vain designs they easily fill with idle notions, till in time they make their plaything an author: their first diversion commonly begins with an ode... | |
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One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal proud of his parts, and flattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness, or the notice... 
