The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... told " Of things invisible to mortal sight . " Pope excelled all his contemporaries , and led the public taste in graceful and picturesque landscape gardening . He had an exquisite eye for dressed nature , nature trimmed by Kent , 17 ...
... told " Of things invisible to mortal sight . " Pope excelled all his contemporaries , and led the public taste in graceful and picturesque landscape gardening . He had an exquisite eye for dressed nature , nature trimmed by Kent , 17 ...
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... told Spence that he was seven years ( from the age of twenty to twenty - seven ) unlearning what he had then acquired . We question whether he could have followed a better plan ; but his constant application at length told on his health ...
... told Spence that he was seven years ( from the age of twenty to twenty - seven ) unlearning what he had then acquired . We question whether he could have followed a better plan ; but his constant application at length told on his health ...
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... told me , as I doubt not he did all his acquaintance , that he would marry as soon as his life was de- spaired of . Accordingly , a few days before his death , he underwent the ceremony ; and joined together those two sacraments , which ...
... told me , as I doubt not he did all his acquaintance , that he would marry as soon as his life was de- spaired of . Accordingly , a few days before his death , he underwent the ceremony ; and joined together those two sacraments , which ...
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... told him that there was one way left of excelling . " We had several great poets , " he said , " but we never had one great poet that was correct ; and he advised me to make that my study and aim . " Walsh could not mean that Milton was ...
... told him that there was one way left of excelling . " We had several great poets , " he said , " but we never had one great poet that was correct ; and he advised me to make that my study and aim . " Walsh could not mean that Milton was ...
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... told me , is like a game at tables , where every one may wish for the best cast , but after all he is to make his best of that which happens , and go on contentedly . If you will visit our shades this spring , which I very much desire ...
... told me , is like a game at tables , where every one may wish for the best cast , but after all he is to make his best of that which happens , and go on contentedly . If you will visit our shades this spring , which I very much desire ...
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Page 98 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
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Page 86 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.