The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page ix
... virtue of his mistress rather than his wife , the patron of the literary adherents of a political party , until , on mounting the throne , he blandly disappointed the hopes of that party itself . The epoch of our Augustans had all but ...
... virtue of his mistress rather than his wife , the patron of the literary adherents of a political party , until , on mounting the throne , he blandly disappointed the hopes of that party itself . The epoch of our Augustans had all but ...
Page xxviii
... virtue of the great Whig author had in the end made a com- plete conquest of the honest man . Though it is inadmissible on the strength of Pope's unproved insinuations to describe him as Addison's dummy , he shared with Ambrose Phillips ...
... virtue of the great Whig author had in the end made a com- plete conquest of the honest man . Though it is inadmissible on the strength of Pope's unproved insinuations to describe him as Addison's dummy , he shared with Ambrose Phillips ...
Page xlix
... virtue with dulness and vice ; and its examples are illustra- tions of its precepts . Here Pope is master ; his ability in representing types of character is unsurpassed . Personal spleen may have generally suggested their selec- tion ...
... virtue with dulness and vice ; and its examples are illustra- tions of its precepts . Here Pope is master ; his ability in representing types of character is unsurpassed . Personal spleen may have generally suggested their selec- tion ...
Page 10
... virtues of a former age , might recommend them to the present . And since the life of shepherds was attended with more tranquillity than any other rural employment , the Poets chose to introduce their Persons , from whom it received the ...
... virtues of a former age , might recommend them to the present . And since the life of shepherds was attended with more tranquillity than any other rural employment , the Poets chose to introduce their Persons , from whom it received the ...
Page 44
... Virtue's train along , Moral Truth , and mystic Song ! To what new clime , what distant sky , Forsaken , friendless , shall ye fly ? Say , will you bless the bleak Atlantic shore ? 15 Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more ? | OH ...
... Virtue's train along , Moral Truth , and mystic Song ! To what new clime , what distant sky , Forsaken , friendless , shall ye fly ? Say , will you bless the bleak Atlantic shore ? 15 Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more ? | OH ...
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