The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page xli
... beauty , is free from an undue affectation of classicisms , and from other peculiarities of an impotent grandiloquence . See Johnson's Lives of the Poets , Cunningham's edition , Vol . 1. p . 13 , cited by Carruthers . VIII . In 1739 ...
... beauty , is free from an undue affectation of classicisms , and from other peculiarities of an impotent grandiloquence . See Johnson's Lives of the Poets , Cunningham's edition , Vol . 1. p . 13 , cited by Carruthers . VIII . In 1739 ...
Page xlvii
... beauty . " Sir Wm . Temple observes , " That of all the members of mankind that live within " the compass of a thousand years , for one man that is capable of making a great ' poet , there may be a thousand born capable of making as ...
... beauty . " Sir Wm . Temple observes , " That of all the members of mankind that live within " the compass of a thousand years , for one man that is capable of making a great ' poet , there may be a thousand born capable of making as ...
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... Beauty . If he has not very good sense ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit , for one man of sense ) his living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : if he has , he will consequently ...
... Beauty . If he has not very good sense ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit , for one man of sense ) his living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : if he has , he will consequently ...
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... beauty in itself , and that it be different in every Eclogue . Besides , in each of them a designed scene or prospect is to be presented to our view , which should likewise have its variety . This variety is obtained in a great degree ...
... beauty in itself , and that it be different in every Eclogue . Besides , in each of them a designed scene or prospect is to be presented to our view , which should likewise have its variety . This variety is obtained in a great degree ...
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... beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus ; it was used in part of Greece , and frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest persons : whereas the old English and country phrases of Spenser were either entirely obsolete , or ...
... beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus ; it was used in part of Greece , and frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest persons : whereas the old English and country phrases of Spenser were either entirely obsolete , or ...
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