The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page xiii
... means of bringing his face to the grindstone was accounted within the limits of legitimate warfare . To blacken his character , to blast his reputation , to defile his grandfather's grave , all these things followed as a matter of ...
... means of bringing his face to the grindstone was accounted within the limits of legitimate warfare . To blacken his character , to blast his reputation , to defile his grandfather's grave , all these things followed as a matter of ...
Page xxii
... means of leading a life congenial to his disposition and suitable to his temperament and health , so its publication marks the conclusion of his brief period of journeymanship in the world of literature . It was during this period too ...
... means of leading a life congenial to his disposition and suitable to his temperament and health , so its publication marks the conclusion of his brief period of journeymanship in the world of literature . It was during this period too ...
Page xxv
... means defective in point . Finally ( for it is necessary to omit the subsidiary passes in this prolonged duel ) Dennis found his place in the Dunciad , and lived to receive from Pope the sneeringly - bestowed alms of a prologue written ...
... means defective in point . Finally ( for it is necessary to omit the subsidiary passes in this prolonged duel ) Dennis found his place in the Dunciad , and lived to receive from Pope the sneeringly - bestowed alms of a prologue written ...
Page xxvi
... means of easier converse . The Scribblerus Club was so named in honour of Swift , for whose name Martin had been sub- stituted as a humorous synonym by Lord Oxford , whence the appellation of Martinus Scribblerus . The burlesque ...
... means of easier converse . The Scribblerus Club was so named in honour of Swift , for whose name Martin had been sub- stituted as a humorous synonym by Lord Oxford , whence the appellation of Martinus Scribblerus . The burlesque ...
Page xxix
... Mean- while Addison remained serenely imperturbable , replying to Pope's satire by a more than complimentary reference to his Homer in the Freeholder , where he ranked it on a level with Dryden's Vergil . And thus , the quarrel , like ...
... Mean- while Addison remained serenely imperturbable , replying to Pope's satire by a more than complimentary reference to his Homer in the Freeholder , where he ranked it on a level with Dryden's Vergil . And thus , the quarrel , like ...
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