The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJones and Company, 1827 - 424 pages |
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... Swift , but was now satisfied with his conduct . To this Pope answered , a week after , that his engagements to Swift were such as his services in regard to the subscription demanded , and that the Tories never put him under the ...
... Swift , but was now satisfied with his conduct . To this Pope answered , a week after , that his engagements to Swift were such as his services in regard to the subscription demanded , and that the Tories never put him under the ...
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... Swift , who was then in England , to publish three volumes of Mis- cellanies , ' in which amongst other things he inserted the ' Memoirs of a Parish Clerk , ' in ridicule of Burnet's im- portance in his own History , and a Debate upon ...
... Swift , who was then in England , to publish three volumes of Mis- cellanies , ' in which amongst other things he inserted the ' Memoirs of a Parish Clerk , ' in ridicule of Burnet's im- portance in his own History , and a Debate upon ...
Page xvii
... Swift : " March 25 , 1736 . " If ever I write any more Epistles in verse , one of them shall be addressed to you . I have long concerted it , and begun it ; but I would make what bears your name as finished as my last work ought to he ...
... Swift : " March 25 , 1736 . " If ever I write any more Epistles in verse , one of them shall be addressed to you . I have long concerted it , and begun it ; but I would make what bears your name as finished as my last work ought to he ...
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... Swift , and expresses it , I think , most frequently in his correspondence with him . Swift's resentment was unreasonable , but it was sincere ; Pope's was the mere mimickry of his friend , a fictitious part which he began to play ...
... Swift , and expresses it , I think , most frequently in his correspondence with him . Swift's resentment was unreasonable , but it was sincere ; Pope's was the mere mimickry of his friend , a fictitious part which he began to play ...
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... Swift's remonstrances , though there was no striking consonance ; nor was he very careful to vary his terminations , or to refuse admission , at a small distance , to the same rhymes . To Swift's edict for the exclusion of Alexandrines ...
... Swift's remonstrances , though there was no striking consonance ; nor was he very careful to vary his terminations , or to refuse admission , at a small distance , to the same rhymes . To Swift's edict for the exclusion of Alexandrines ...
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