The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorCrosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860 - 578 pages |
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... poet was born at London in 1688 . and was descended from a good family of tnat name in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of Downe , whose sole heiress married the Earl of Lindsey . His father , a man of primitive simplicity ...
... poet was born at London in 1688 . and was descended from a good family of tnat name in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of Downe , whose sole heiress married the Earl of Lindsey . His father , a man of primitive simplicity ...
Page vii
... poet went to his father , to reside at his house at Binfield , in Windsor Forest , where he was , for a few months ... poets have given Carly displays of genius yet we cannot recollect that amongst the inspired tribe one LIFE OF POPE.
... poet went to his father , to reside at his house at Binfield , in Windsor Forest , where he was , for a few months ... poets have given Carly displays of genius yet we cannot recollect that amongst the inspired tribe one LIFE OF POPE.
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... poet , he has there related some anecdotes of Wycherley , which we shall bere insert . ❝ Dear Sir , " I know of nothing that will be so interesting to you at present as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet ...
... poet , he has there related some anecdotes of Wycherley , which we shall bere insert . ❝ Dear Sir , " I know of nothing that will be so interesting to you at present as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet ...
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... poet and the former of these gentlemen ; here it will not be improper to give a more particular account of it . The author of Mist's Journal positively asserts , " That Mr. Addison raised Pope from obscurity , ob- tained him the ...
... poet and the former of these gentlemen ; here it will not be improper to give a more particular account of it . The author of Mist's Journal positively asserts , " That Mr. Addison raised Pope from obscurity , ob- tained him the ...
Page xix
... poet ; that he had quitted the Muses o enter into the business of the public , and that all ne spoke was through friendship to Mr. Pope , whom he advised to have less exalted sense of his own merit . Mr. Pope could not well bear such ...
... poet ; that he had quitted the Muses o enter into the business of the public , and that all ne spoke was through friendship to Mr. Pope , whom he advised to have less exalted sense of his own merit . Mr. Pope could not well bear such ...
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