The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page xlvii
... thousand years , for one man that is capable of making a great " poet , there may be a thousand born capable of making as great generals or minis- ters of state as any in story . ' Here is a statesman's opinion of poetry ; it is ...
... thousand years , for one man that is capable of making a great " poet , there may be a thousand born capable of making as great generals or minis- ters of state as any in story . ' Here is a statesman's opinion of poetry ; it is ...
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... thousand inaccuracies more glaring than those which he has actually committed . A scholar's hand might make Dryden's Juvenal Juvenal , but to be made Homer Pope's trans- lations need not to be revised , but recast . This is not a mere ...
... thousand inaccuracies more glaring than those which he has actually committed . A scholar's hand might make Dryden's Juvenal Juvenal , but to be made Homer Pope's trans- lations need not to be revised , but recast . This is not a mere ...
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... thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . ' Such were , as far as I can judge , the principal achievements of Pope during his life of devotion to literature ...
... thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . ' Such were , as far as I can judge , the principal achievements of Pope during his life of devotion to literature ...
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... thousand steps are lost . 150 See the bold youth strain up the threat'ning steep , Rush thro ' the thickets , down the valleys sweep , Hang o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed ...
... thousand steps are lost . 150 See the bold youth strain up the threat'ning steep , Rush thro ' the thickets , down the valleys sweep , Hang o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed ...
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... thousand grateful thoughts arise ; Or meets his spouse's fonder eye ; 31 Or views his smiling progeny ; What tender passions take their turns , What home - felt raptures move ? His heart now melts , now leaps , now burns , With rev ...
... thousand grateful thoughts arise ; Or meets his spouse's fonder eye ; 31 Or views his smiling progeny ; What tender passions take their turns , What home - felt raptures move ? His heart now melts , now leaps , now burns , With rev ...
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