The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page xvi
... poet's grandfather was a clergyman of the Church of England . Though antiquarian zeal has sought to identify this supposed Anglican clerical grandsire in the person of an Alexander Pope , rector of Thruxton in Hampshire , who died in ...
... poet's grandfather was a clergyman of the Church of England . Though antiquarian zeal has sought to identify this supposed Anglican clerical grandsire in the person of an Alexander Pope , rector of Thruxton in Hampshire , who died in ...
Page xix
... poet in the days of his prosperity mindful of the inestimable service rendered him by the good father , and ... poets nearly monopolised his attention ; translation and imitation helping him to familiarise himself by practice with the ...
... poet in the days of his prosperity mindful of the inestimable service rendered him by the good father , and ... poets nearly monopolised his attention ; translation and imitation helping him to familiarise himself by practice with the ...
Page xx
... poets his Imitations offer sufficient proofs ; that the genius of Chaucer only in part , and that of Spenser hardly ... poet , but enjoyed a still higher reputation as a critic . He received the juvenile poems favourably and returned a ...
... poets his Imitations offer sufficient proofs ; that the genius of Chaucer only in part , and that of Spenser hardly ... poet , but enjoyed a still higher reputation as a critic . He received the juvenile poems favourably and returned a ...
Page xxi
... poet and patron of poets , modest on the head of his own performances , eager for the success of those of others ; -to Lord Halifax who afterwards when first lord of the Treasury was to honour himself by offering a pension to Pope which ...
... poet and patron of poets , modest on the head of his own performances , eager for the success of those of others ; -to Lord Halifax who afterwards when first lord of the Treasury was to honour himself by offering a pension to Pope which ...
Page xxx
... poets , to be worked out by experience ; and Pope was not anxious to avoid the opportunities with which he met ... poetic and other , were at first chiefly addressed to the elder sister , but that in the end the younger Martha became the ...
... poets , to be worked out by experience ; and Pope was not anxious to avoid the opportunities with which he met ... poetic and other , were at first chiefly addressed to the elder sister , but that in the end the younger Martha became the ...
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