The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page vii
... Letter to the Publisher The Temple of Fame 113 January and May 128 The Wife of Bath 144 The First Book of Statius his Thebais 153 The Fable of Dryope 171 Vertumnus and Pomona 173 Imitations of English Poets 176 Chaucer Spenser ( The ...
... Letter to the Publisher The Temple of Fame 113 January and May 128 The Wife of Bath 144 The First Book of Statius his Thebais 153 The Fable of Dryope 171 Vertumnus and Pomona 173 Imitations of English Poets 176 Chaucer Spenser ( The ...
Page ix
... letters such as the first of the legitimate Caesars was too prudent absolutely to neglect , it would condemn itself at once . The English Augustans were not warmed by the favour of any English Augustus . William the Deliverer , in whose ...
... letters such as the first of the legitimate Caesars was too prudent absolutely to neglect , it would condemn itself at once . The English Augustans were not warmed by the favour of any English Augustus . William the Deliverer , in whose ...
Page xiv
... letters - there was little as to true generosity of spirit to choose between the two1 . The comparative smallness of the literary world may help to account for the importance with which its members invested even their most trivial ...
... letters - there was little as to true generosity of spirit to choose between the two1 . The comparative smallness of the literary world may help to account for the importance with which its members invested even their most trivial ...
Page xvi
... letters referring to the pious habits prevailing in his family ; and passages in the poetry of the son1 picture the father's life as spent in cheerful resignation to the lot in those days incumbent upon adherents to the persecuted ...
... letters referring to the pious habits prevailing in his family ; and passages in the poetry of the son1 picture the father's life as spent in cheerful resignation to the lot in those days incumbent upon adherents to the persecuted ...
Page xix
... letters or in his works , that he ever attained to any real familiarity with either of these languages . French he seems to have learnt to read with ease ; whether he conversed in it may be doubted , and his invariable habit in his ...
... letters or in his works , that he ever attained to any real familiarity with either of these languages . French he seems to have learnt to read with ease ; whether he conversed in it may be doubted , and his invariable habit in his ...
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