The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorCrosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860 - 578 pages |
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Page xxvi
... remarks , which we have just quoted , partake not at all of the nature of criticism ; they are mere assertion . Pope had declared Homer to abound with irregular beau- tics . Dacier has contradicted him , and asserted , that all his ...
... remarks , which we have just quoted , partake not at all of the nature of criticism ; they are mere assertion . Pope had declared Homer to abound with irregular beau- tics . Dacier has contradicted him , and asserted , that all his ...
Page xxxi
... remarks on his writings . He was equally admired for the dignity and sublimity of his moral and philosophical works , the vivacity of his satirical , the clearness and propriety of his didactic , the richness and variety of his ...
... remarks on his writings . He was equally admired for the dignity and sublimity of his moral and philosophical works , the vivacity of his satirical , the clearness and propriety of his didactic , the richness and variety of his ...
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... Remarks on Prince Arthur . I CANNOT but think it the most reasonable thing in the world , to distinguish good writers , by discouraging the bad . Nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom the ...
... Remarks on Prince Arthur . I CANNOT but think it the most reasonable thing in the world , to distinguish good writers , by discouraging the bad . Nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom the ...
Page 149
... virtue . If you take away her ten . 1 Spectator , No. 253 . 2 Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope : Ulomer , 1717. 3 Printed 4728 , p . 12 . der thoughts , and her fierce desires , all the THE DUNCIAD . 149.
... virtue . If you take away her ten . 1 Spectator , No. 253 . 2 Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope : Ulomer , 1717. 3 Printed 4728 , p . 12 . der thoughts , and her fierce desires , all the THE DUNCIAD . 149.
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... REMARKS The Dunciad , sic MS . ] It may well be disputed whe- her this be a right reading . Ought it not rather be spelled Dunceiad , as the etymology evidently demande ? Dunce VOL . II . 13 You , by whose care , in vain decried and ...
... REMARKS The Dunciad , sic MS . ] It may well be disputed whe- her this be a right reading . Ought it not rather be spelled Dunceiad , as the etymology evidently demande ? Dunce VOL . II . 13 You , by whose care , in vain decried and ...
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