The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1924 - 505 pages |
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Page ix
... never made it part of his political programme to sympathise . Queen Anne's very feeble light of personal judgment was easily kept under by the resolute will of her favourites , or flickered timidly under cover of the narrowest orthodoxy ...
... never made it part of his political programme to sympathise . Queen Anne's very feeble light of personal judgment was easily kept under by the resolute will of her favourites , or flickered timidly under cover of the narrowest orthodoxy ...
Page xi
... never wholly absorbed in political life , might have essayed to offer its pleasing aid . It is true that in England , happily perhaps for our political development , the social life of the upper classes has generally found its centre in ...
... never wholly absorbed in political life , might have essayed to offer its pleasing aid . It is true that in England , happily perhaps for our political development , the social life of the upper classes has generally found its centre in ...
Page xvii
... never to check . When the son affected the art of painting , his father placed no obstacles in his way ; when he adopted literature as the calling of his life , his father with equal readiness acquiesced in this hazardous choice . He never ...
... never to check . When the son affected the art of painting , his father placed no obstacles in his way ; when he adopted literature as the calling of his life , his father with equal readiness acquiesced in this hazardous choice . He never ...
Page xxi
... never swerved during his literary career ; he bade him be a ' correct poet , ' or in other words , desired to limit the excursions of Pope's muse to regions already meted out by trustworthy predecessors , ' prescribed her heights and ...
... never swerved during his literary career ; he bade him be a ' correct poet , ' or in other words , desired to limit the excursions of Pope's muse to regions already meted out by trustworthy predecessors , ' prescribed her heights and ...
Page xxvi
... the Beggar's Opera ! See Wright's Caric . Hist . of the Georges , Chap . 111 . 3 Epistle to Arbuthnot , vv . 255 4 Carruthers . ff . unprecedented length and splendour . Yet Pope had never sufficiently xxvi INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR .
... the Beggar's Opera ! See Wright's Caric . Hist . of the Georges , Chap . 111 . 3 Epistle to Arbuthnot , vv . 255 4 Carruthers . ff . unprecedented length and splendour . Yet Pope had never sufficiently xxvi INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR .
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