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 iii
... lost part of what Taverner had taught him ; and on his master at Twyford he had already exercised his poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those masters he translated more than a fourth part of the Metamor- phoses . If he kept the same ...
... lost part of what Taverner had taught him ; and on his master at Twyford he had already exercised his poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those masters he translated more than a fourth part of the Metamor- phoses . If he kept the same ...
Page viii
... divine , All - knowing Goddesses ! immortal nine ! Since Earth's wide regions , Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide nothing from your sight , We , wretched mortals ! lost in doubts below , viii LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE .
... divine , All - knowing Goddesses ! immortal nine ! Since Earth's wide regions , Heaven's unmeasured height , And Hell's abyss , hide nothing from your sight , We , wretched mortals ! lost in doubts below , viii LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE .
Page ix
... lost in doubts below , But guess by rumour , and but boast we know ) Oh ! say what heroes , fired by thirst of fame , Or urged by wrongs , to Troy's destruction came ! To count them all , demands a thousand tongues , A throat of brass ...
... lost in doubts below , But guess by rumour , and but boast we know ) Oh ! say what heroes , fired by thirst of fame , Or urged by wrongs , to Troy's destruction came ! To count them all , demands a thousand tongues , A throat of brass ...
Page xxi
... lost a single friend by coldness or by injury ; those who loved him once , continued their kind- ness . His ungrateful mention of Allen in bis will , was the effect of his adherence to one whom he had known much longer , and whom he ...
... lost a single friend by coldness or by injury ; those who loved him once , continued their kind- ness . His ungrateful mention of Allen in bis will , was the effect of his adherence to one whom he had known much longer , and whom he ...
Page xxiv
... lost much of the delay , and much of the rapidity . But to shew how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of representative harmony , it will be sufficient to remark that the poet , who tells us , that When Ajax ...
... lost much of the delay , and much of the rapidity . But to shew how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of representative harmony , it will be sufficient to remark that the poet , who tells us , that When Ajax ...
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