The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volumes 1-2Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - 616 pages |
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... beauty , titles , wealth and fame ; How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not , To whom related , or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; " Tis all thou art , and all the proud shall be ! No poem of our author's ...
... beauty , titles , wealth and fame ; How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not , To whom related , or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; " Tis all thou art , and all the proud shall be ! No poem of our author's ...
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... beauty in the numbers , and concludes with saying , " That we have three poems in our tongue of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its kind ; the Essay on Trans- .ated Verse , the Essay on the Art of Poetry είν LIFE OF POPE .
... beauty in the numbers , and concludes with saying , " That we have three poems in our tongue of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its kind ; the Essay on Trans- .ated Verse , the Essay on the Art of Poetry είν LIFE OF POPE .
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... employed to write the Popiad , in which his transla tion is characterized as unjust to the original , without beauty of language , or variety of numbers . Instead of the justness of the original , they say there LIFE OF POPE . xxiii.
... employed to write the Popiad , in which his transla tion is characterized as unjust to the original , without beauty of language , or variety of numbers . Instead of the justness of the original , they say there LIFE OF POPE . xxiii.
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... beauty of language , no harmony of numbers in thi translation . But the most formidable critic against Mr. Pope ir this great undertaking , was the celebrated Madame Dacier , whom Mr. Pope treated with less ceremony in his Notes on the ...
... beauty of language , no harmony of numbers in thi translation . But the most formidable critic against Mr. Pope ir this great undertaking , was the celebrated Madame Dacier , whom Mr. Pope treated with less ceremony in his Notes on the ...
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... beauty is there to such an amazing perfection , that the following ages could add nothing to those of any kind ; and the an- cients have always proposed Homer as the most per fect model in every kind of poetry . " The third comparison ...
... beauty is there to such an amazing perfection , that the following ages could add nothing to those of any kind ; and the an- cients have always proposed Homer as the most per fect model in every kind of poetry . " The third comparison ...
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