The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1924 - 505 pages |
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Page viii
... Epigram ( My Lord complains , & c . ) Epigram ( Yes , ' tis the time , & c . ) 490 • 491 On Mrs Tofts Occasioned by some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham 465 Occasioned by reading the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver 491 ...
... Epigram ( My Lord complains , & c . ) Epigram ( Yes , ' tis the time , & c . ) 490 • 491 On Mrs Tofts Occasioned by some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham 465 Occasioned by reading the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver 491 ...
Page xxxvi
... epigrams which he furnished to this weekly periodical will be found among the Miscellanies at the close of the present volume ; several other pieces are with much probability , though not with absolute certainty , attributed to him . At ...
... epigrams which he furnished to this weekly periodical will be found among the Miscellanies at the close of the present volume ; several other pieces are with much probability , though not with absolute certainty , attributed to him . At ...
Page xliv
... epigram written by Pope himself , but never , we may be sure , designed by him to degrade his resting - place1 . His will is only interesting in so far as ample provision was made in it for Martha Blount , to whom the principal part of ...
... epigram written by Pope himself , but never , we may be sure , designed by him to degrade his resting - place1 . His will is only interesting in so far as ample provision was made in it for Martha Blount , to whom the principal part of ...
Page 315
... epigram on the laureateship of Colley Cibber : Augustus still survives in Maro's strain , And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign : 390 395 Great George's acts let tuneful Cibber sing ; For nature formed the poet for the king . ' 5 ...
... epigram on the laureateship of Colley Cibber : Augustus still survives in Maro's strain , And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign : 390 395 Great George's acts let tuneful Cibber sing ; For nature formed the poet for the king . ' 5 ...
Page 324
... Epigrams are very good ; his Elegies are most offensively indecent ; and the Progress of the Soul is a disgusting burlesque on the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis . The Funeral Elegies already show the transition to 324 SATIRES ...
... Epigrams are very good ; his Elegies are most offensively indecent ; and the Progress of the Soul is a disgusting burlesque on the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis . The Funeral Elegies already show the transition to 324 SATIRES ...
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