The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page xx
... tell you , ' he wrote to Pope as early as 1705 , ' that I know nobody so likely to equal ' Milton as the author of his earlier poems ' even at the age he wrote most of them , as yourself . ' It was Trumball who introduced his protégé to ...
... tell you , ' he wrote to Pope as early as 1705 , ' that I know nobody so likely to equal ' Milton as the author of his earlier poems ' even at the age he wrote most of them , as yourself . ' It was Trumball who introduced his protégé to ...
Page xli
... telling a story . Yet his prose in itself is unaffected and clear ; and though far from approaching that of Swift in strength or that of Addison in beauty , is free from an undue affectation of classicisms , and from other peculiarities ...
... telling a story . Yet his prose in itself is unaffected and clear ; and though far from approaching that of Swift in strength or that of Addison in beauty , is free from an undue affectation of classicisms , and from other peculiarities ...
Page xlv
... telling elaboration the familiar outlines . But little is gained by intermingling personalities from which Dennis might have shrunk with an estimate of intellectual characteristics ; and a very few facts suffice to change into infinite ...
... telling elaboration the familiar outlines . But little is gained by intermingling personalities from which Dennis might have shrunk with an estimate of intellectual characteristics ; and a very few facts suffice to change into infinite ...
Page 16
... Tell me but this , and I'll disclaim the prize , And give the conquest to thy Sylvia's eyes . DAPHNIS . Nay tell me first , in what more happy fields The Thistle springs , to which the Lily yields 2 : And then a nobler prize I will ...
... Tell me but this , and I'll disclaim the prize , And give the conquest to thy Sylvia's eyes . DAPHNIS . Nay tell me first , in what more happy fields The Thistle springs , to which the Lily yields 2 : And then a nobler prize I will ...
Page 24
... tell the reeds , and tell the vocal shore , Fair Daphne's dead , and music is no more ! Her fate is whisper'd by the gentle breeze , And told in sighs to all the trembling trees ; The trembling trees , in ev'ry plain and wood , Her fate ...
... tell the reeds , and tell the vocal shore , Fair Daphne's dead , and music is no more ! Her fate is whisper'd by the gentle breeze , And told in sighs to all the trembling trees ; The trembling trees , in ev'ry plain and wood , Her fate ...
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