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
... whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . ยท When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- shire , under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practised , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments ...
... whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . ยท When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- shire , under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practised , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments ...
Page viii
... whole first book , I am told that there was a former copy , more varied , and more deformed with interlineations . The beginning of the second book varies very little Declare , O Muse , in what ill - fated hour Sprung the fierce strife ...
... whole first book , I am told that there was a former copy , more varied , and more deformed with interlineations . The beginning of the second book varies very little Declare , O Muse , in what ill - fated hour Sprung the fierce strife ...
Page xvii
... whole process was probably intended rather to intimidate Pope , than to punish Whitehead . The Memoirs of Scriblerus , ' published about this time , extend only to the first book of a work projected in concert by Pope , Swift , and ...
... whole process was probably intended rather to intimidate Pope , than to punish Whitehead . The Memoirs of Scriblerus , ' published about this time , extend only to the first book of a work projected in concert by Pope , Swift , and ...
Page xix
... whole impression to the flames . Hitherto nothing had been done which was not natu- rally dictated by resentment of violated faith ; resent- ment more acrimonious , as the violator had been more loved or more trusted . But here the ...
... whole impression to the flames . Hitherto nothing had been done which was not natu- rally dictated by resentment of violated faith ; resent- ment more acrimonious , as the violator had been more loved or more trusted . But here the ...
Page xxix
... whole thankless land to his denies Of this inscription the chief fault is , that it belongs less to Rowe , for whom it was written , than to Dryden , who was buried near him ; and indeed gives very little information concerning either ...
... whole thankless land to his denies Of this inscription the chief fault is , that it belongs less to Rowe , for whom it was written , than to Dryden , who was buried near him ; and indeed gives very little information concerning either ...
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