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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Page ix
... kind which any nation has produced ever since the time of Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Pastorals appeared . Mr. Walsh pronounces on our Shepherd's boy ( as Mr. Pope called himself , ) the following judgment , in a letter ...
... kind which any nation has produced ever since the time of Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Pastorals appeared . Mr. Walsh pronounces on our Shepherd's boy ( as Mr. Pope called himself , ) the following judgment , in a letter ...
Page x
... kind of reward which he received for his writings , which do honour to our age and country , his religion rendering him incapable of a place , which the Lord Treasurer Oxford used to express his con- cern for , but without offering him ...
... kind of reward which he received for his writings , which do honour to our age and country , his religion rendering him incapable of a place , which the Lord Treasurer Oxford used to express his con- cern for , but without offering him ...
Page xi
... kind of hint as to the order of time in which they are to be taken . The old man then lay down satisfied in the conscience of having , by this one act , paid his just debts , obliged a woman who , he was told , had merit , and shown an ...
... kind of hint as to the order of time in which they are to be taken . The old man then lay down satisfied in the conscience of having , by this one act , paid his just debts , obliged a woman who , he was told , had merit , and shown an ...
Page xiii
... months ago , is a master - piece in its kind The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical re gularity which would have been requisite in a prose writer LIFE OF POPE . xiù.
... months ago , is a master - piece in its kind The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical re gularity which would have been requisite in a prose writer LIFE OF POPE . xiù.
Page xiv
... kind of 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 ...
... kind of 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 ...
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