The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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Page vii
... gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This piece was , however , not much his favourite in his latter years , though I never heard upon what principle he slighted it . 6 It is In the next year ( 1713 ) he published Windsor Forest ...
... gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This piece was , however , not much his favourite in his latter years , though I never heard upon what principle he slighted it . 6 It is In the next year ( 1713 ) he published Windsor Forest ...
Page xvi
... gave , in a short time , according to Pope's ac - sons and names being utterly secret and obscure . count , occasion to the ' Dunciad . ' " This gave Mr. Pope the thought , that he had In the following year ( 1728 ) he began to put now ...
... gave , in a short time , according to Pope's ac - sons and names being utterly secret and obscure . count , occasion to the ' Dunciad . ' " This gave Mr. Pope the thought , that he had In the following year ( 1728 ) he began to put now ...
Page xviii
... gave the price demanded , and thought sation ; some read it as a contemporary history , and himself authorised to use his purchase to his own some perhaps as a model of epistolary language : advantage . but those who read it did not ...
... gave the price demanded , and thought sation ; some read it as a contemporary history , and himself authorised to use his purchase to his own some perhaps as a model of epistolary language : advantage . but those who read it did not ...
Page xx
... gave him a what you explain ; but I did not explain my own haughty confidence , which he disdained to conceal meaning so well as you . You understand me as or mollify : and his impatience of opposition dis - well as I do myself ; but ...
... gave him a what you explain ; but I did not explain my own haughty confidence , which he disdained to conceal meaning so well as you . You understand me as or mollify : and his impatience of opposition dis - well as I do myself ; but ...
Page xxiii
... gave the town a pam- but injuriously omitted his predecessor's Preface . phlet , in which he declared his resolution from that To these books , which had nothing but the mere time never to bear another blow without returning text , no ...
... gave the town a pam- but injuriously omitted his predecessor's Preface . phlet , in which he declared his resolution from that To these books , which had nothing but the mere time never to bear another blow without returning text , no ...
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