The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page xx
... youth . ' ' Give me leave 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 ...
... youth . ' ' Give me leave 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 ...
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... youth of very unripe Toryism developed into a full - blown Whig . In former days he had ventured to produce a rival play to Addison's Cato ; but the success and virtue of the great Whig author had in the end made a com- plete conquest ...
... youth of very unripe Toryism developed into a full - blown Whig . In former days he had ventured to produce a rival play to Addison's Cato ; but the success and virtue of the great Whig author had in the end made a com- plete conquest ...
Page xxxiv
... youth for ' woods , gardens , rookeries , fish- ponds , arbours ' had to be satisfied with the fulfilment of its more modest items . Yet he contrived , according to the enumeration of one of his biographers1 , to introduce into his five ...
... youth for ' woods , gardens , rookeries , fish- ponds , arbours ' had to be satisfied with the fulfilment of its more modest items . Yet he contrived , according to the enumeration of one of his biographers1 , to introduce into his five ...
Page xlvi
... youth , to the Carylls and Cromwells and Blounts , and to the friends of his manhood , to Swift and Arbuthnot and Gay , and to Boling- broke , whom he thought ' superior to anything he had seen in human nature . ' Nor was he a friend in ...
... youth , to the Carylls and Cromwells and Blounts , and to the friends of his manhood , to Swift and Arbuthnot and Gay , and to Boling- broke , whom he thought ' superior to anything he had seen in human nature . ' Nor was he a friend in ...
Page xlviii
... youth was not the result of another Renais- sance , of another movement towards intellectual freedom through genuine culture . English society and its handmaid , English literature , had in the days of the Restora- tion , recklessly ...
... youth was not the result of another Renais- sance , of another movement towards intellectual freedom through genuine culture . English society and its handmaid , English literature , had in the days of the Restora- tion , recklessly ...
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