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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Page vi
... Lord Mansfield * : if this was taken from life , he must have begun to paint earlier ; for Betterton was now dead . Pope's ambition of this new art produced some encomiastic verses to Jervas , which certainly shew his power as a poet ...
... Lord Mansfield * : if this was taken from life , he must have begun to paint earlier ; for Betterton was now dead . Pope's ambition of this new art produced some encomiastic verses to Jervas , which certainly shew his power as a poet ...
Page ix
... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste , than really possessed of it . When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad , ' that Lord desired to have the pleasure of hear ing them read at his house ...
... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste , than really possessed of it . When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad , ' that Lord desired to have the pleasure of hear ing them read at his house ...
Page x
... Lord Halifax's with . Dr. Garth , in his chariot ; and , as we were going along , was saying to the Doctor , that my Lord had laid me under a great deal of difficulty by such loose and general observations : that I had been think ing ...
... Lord Halifax's with . Dr. Garth , in his chariot ; and , as we were going along , was saying to the Doctor , that my Lord had laid me under a great deal of difficulty by such loose and general observations : that I had been think ing ...
Page xi
... Lord Warwick himself told me one day , that it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison ; that his jea lous temper would never admit of a settled friendship between us and , to convince me of what he had said ...
... Lord Warwick himself told me one day , that it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison ; that his jea lous temper would never admit of a settled friendship between us and , to convince me of what he had said ...
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... Lord Bathurst . ( 1733 ) on the Use of Riches , ' a piece on which he declared great labour to have been bestowed * . Into this piece some hints are historically thrown , and some known characters are introduced , with others of which ...
... Lord Bathurst . ( 1733 ) on the Use of Riches , ' a piece on which he declared great labour to have been bestowed * . Into this piece some hints are historically thrown , and some known characters are introduced , with others of which ...
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