The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1924 - 505 pages |
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Page viii
... Lost . 497 II . Epigram ( Should D - s print , & c . ) 498 III . Mr J. M. S - e catechised on his one Epistle to Mr Pope IV . Epigram : on Mr M - re's going to law with Mr Gilliver III . To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver from the Houyhnhnms II ...
... Lost . 497 II . Epigram ( Should D - s print , & c . ) 498 III . Mr J. M. S - e catechised on his one Epistle to Mr Pope IV . Epigram : on Mr M - re's going to law with Mr Gilliver III . To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver from the Houyhnhnms II ...
Page xii
... lost itself in empty dogmatism , or strayed into the exchange of sheer personalities . The true critic and the true student were rare among the children of our Augustan age . For in this age literature is in the main regarded under two ...
... lost itself in empty dogmatism , or strayed into the exchange of sheer personalities . The true critic and the true student were rare among the children of our Augustan age . For in this age literature is in the main regarded under two ...
Page xx
... lost the art of writing naturally by slow degrees . Of his appreciation of the distinc- tive styles of several English poets his Imitations offer sufficient proofs ; that the genius of Chaucer only in part , and that of Spenser hardly ...
... lost the art of writing naturally by slow degrees . Of his appreciation of the distinc- tive styles of several English poets his Imitations offer sufficient proofs ; that the genius of Chaucer only in part , and that of Spenser hardly ...
Page xliii
... lost most of his literary enemies , as he had been deprived of most of his intimate associates and friends . On the other hand , popular fame surrounded him with a halo to which his general absence from public haunts lent something ...
... lost most of his literary enemies , as he had been deprived of most of his intimate associates and friends . On the other hand , popular fame surrounded him with a halo to which his general absence from public haunts lent something ...
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... Lost in rhymed couplets if he could . But the heroic couplet , and no other form of verse , was that adapted to the genius of Pope . He once observed that one of the great conditions of writing well is ' to know thoroughly what one ...
... Lost in rhymed couplets if he could . But the heroic couplet , and no other form of verse , was that adapted to the genius of Pope . He once observed that one of the great conditions of writing well is ' to know thoroughly what one ...
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