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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... POPE's writings , and genius , he is far from being over anxious to make others adopt his fentiments . He will think it fufficient , if his remarks should engage the reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath prefumed to differ ...
... POPE's writings , and genius , he is far from being over anxious to make others adopt his fentiments . He will think it fufficient , if his remarks should engage the reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath prefumed to differ ...
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... POPE'S father was faid to be a mechanic , a hatter , a farmer , nay a bankrupt ; but what is ftrange , a nobleman ( if fuch a reflection could be thought to come from a nobleman ) had dropt an allufion to that pitiful untruth , in a ...
... POPE'S father was faid to be a mechanic , a hatter , a farmer , nay a bankrupt ; but what is ftrange , a nobleman ( if fuch a reflection could be thought to come from a nobleman ) had dropt an allufion to that pitiful untruth , in a ...
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... , with his father , who had retired thither fiom business about the time of the . revolution : and , having converted all his effects into levo- ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . 13 into the form wherein it is now printed in the ...
... , with his father , who had retired thither fiom business about the time of the . revolution : and , having converted all his effects into levo- ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . 13 into the form wherein it is now printed in the ...
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... POPE'S paffion for poetry was fo ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ; and he says , in his Epifle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came ...
... POPE'S paffion for poetry was fo ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ; and he says , in his Epifle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came ...
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... POPE's difcernment , however , was too acute not to perceive the defects of fuch irregu- lar and defultory habits of ftudy . For though a retentive memory and correct judgment en- abled him to remedy many of thofe defects , they at the ...
... POPE's difcernment , however , was too acute not to perceive the defects of fuch irregu- lar and defultory habits of ftudy . For though a retentive memory and correct judgment en- abled him to remedy many of thofe defects , they at the ...
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