The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page ix
... never made it part of his political programme to sympathise . Queen Anne's very feeble light of personal judgment was easily kept under by the resolute will of her favourites , or flickered timidly under cover of the narrowest orthodoxy ...
... never made it part of his political programme to sympathise . Queen Anne's very feeble light of personal judgment was easily kept under by the resolute will of her favourites , or flickered timidly under cover of the narrowest orthodoxy ...
Page xi
... never wholly absorbed in political life , might have essayed to offer its pleasing aid . It is true that in England , happily perhaps for our political development , the social life of the upper classes has generally found its centre in ...
... never wholly absorbed in political life , might have essayed to offer its pleasing aid . It is true that in England , happily perhaps for our political development , the social life of the upper classes has generally found its centre in ...
Page xii
... never forgets the special in the general . He will be , in form , an eclectic of eclectics , sworn to fidelity to no school , and founding none , but like the society with which he accords , correct within the limits of a self - formed ...
... never forgets the special in the general . He will be , in form , an eclectic of eclectics , sworn to fidelity to no school , and founding none , but like the society with which he accords , correct within the limits of a self - formed ...
Page xvii
... never to check . When the son affected the art of painting , his father placed no obstacles in his way ; when he adopted literature as the calling of his life , his father with equal readiness acquiesced in this hazardous choice . He never ...
... never to check . When the son affected the art of painting , his father placed no obstacles in his way ; when he adopted literature as the calling of his life , his father with equal readiness acquiesced in this hazardous choice . He never ...
Page xxv
... never published ; and in 1720 he saluted the completion of Pope's Iliad by a discharge of minute cavils , of which as usual a certain proportion were by no means defective in point . Finally ( for it is necessary to omit the subsidiary ...
... never published ; and in 1720 he saluted the completion of Pope's Iliad by a discharge of minute cavils , of which as usual a certain proportion were by no means defective in point . Finally ( for it is necessary to omit the subsidiary ...
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