The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1924 - 505 pages |
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Page ix
... 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 . Of the first two ...
... 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 . Of the first two ...
Page x
... political and social life a period of eager speculation as to the contingencies which might supervene on her decease . Parties within parties , and factions within factions , battled over their living sovereign because it seemed that ...
... political and social life a period of eager speculation as to the contingencies which might supervene on her decease . Parties within parties , and factions within factions , battled over their living sovereign because it seemed that ...
Page xi
... 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 the political life of ...
... 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 the political life of ...
Page xii
... political instrument and as an intellectual stimulant . The literary hero of these times will therefore not be a mind intent upon pondering and revealing the depths of human nature ; nor a poet who from out of the turmoil of political ...
... political instrument and as an intellectual stimulant . The literary hero of these times will therefore not be a mind intent upon pondering and revealing the depths of human nature ; nor a poet who from out of the turmoil of political ...
Page xiii
... political or literary counter - coterie . Just as the world of politics in this age was limited to a very small numerical proportion of the nation whose affairs it swayed , so the world of literature , extremely confined in comparison ...
... political or literary counter - coterie . Just as the world of politics in this age was limited to a very small numerical proportion of the nation whose affairs it swayed , so the world of literature , extremely confined in comparison ...
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