The Life of Alexander Pope: Esq. Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius. By Owen Ruffhead, EsqC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, [and 8 others in London], 1769 - Electronic books - 578 pages |
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... ridicule on the attempt , that he had thrown all his learning , as Milton has done with too much profufion , in his Paradife Loft . This Alcander was chiefly an imitative poem , in which Mr. POPE had collected the feveral beauties of ...
... ridicule on the attempt , that he had thrown all his learning , as Milton has done with too much profufion , in his Paradife Loft . This Alcander was chiefly an imitative poem , in which Mr. POPE had collected the feveral beauties of ...
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... ridicule his own defects . The ridicule , however , of this juvenile attempt , did not difcourage him from once more attempting . this fpecies of compofition ; for , in his riper years , he formed a defign of writing an epic poem ...
... ridicule his own defects . The ridicule , however , of this juvenile attempt , did not difcourage him from once more attempting . this fpecies of compofition ; for , in his riper years , he formed a defign of writing an epic poem ...
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... ridicule these objections , Mr. POPE privately fent an essay , which was published in a paper called the Guardian ; and which contained an ironical comparison -between 5 between his own paftorals , and thofe of Phil- lips ALEXANDER POPE ...
... ridicule these objections , Mr. POPE privately fent an essay , which was published in a paper called the Guardian ; and which contained an ironical comparison -between 5 between his own paftorals , and thofe of Phil- lips ALEXANDER POPE ...
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... ridiculed ; as is the naiveté of the incidents of thefe paftorals in the SHEPHERD'S WEEK it- felf . Yet , this is remarkable , that they who were not in the fecret , miftook Gay's paftorals for a burlesque on Virgil's . How far this ...
... ridiculed ; as is the naiveté of the incidents of thefe paftorals in the SHEPHERD'S WEEK it- felf . Yet , this is remarkable , that they who were not in the fecret , miftook Gay's paftorals for a burlesque on Virgil's . How far this ...
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... ridicule on what the poet in- tended to be serious ; and makes these numbers , as the critic obferves , of fo burlefque and ridi- culous a kind , that one is concerned to find them in a serious ode , and in an ode of a writer eminently ...
... ridicule on what the poet in- tended to be serious ; and makes these numbers , as the critic obferves , of fo burlefque and ridi- culous a kind , that one is concerned to find them in a serious ode , and in an ode of a writer eminently ...
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