The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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Page 46
... Tickell , Ambrose Philips , and poets humbler even than the humblest of these , held public offices , or enjoyed the patronage of the great , and lived in comparative opulence . Swift was shut out of a bishopric by the supposed ...
... Tickell , Ambrose Philips , and poets humbler even than the humblest of these , held public offices , or enjoyed the patronage of the great , and lived in comparative opulence . Swift was shut out of a bishopric by the supposed ...
Page 62
... Tickell's on the Prospect of Peace , and recommended the Pastorals of Philips . Of the latter , he observed : " One would have thought it impossible for this kind of poetry to have sub- sisted without fauns and satyrs , wood nymphs and ...
... Tickell's on the Prospect of Peace , and recommended the Pastorals of Philips . Of the latter , he observed : " One would have thought it impossible for this kind of poetry to have sub- sisted without fauns and satyrs , wood nymphs and ...
Page 93
... Tickell , reviewing the pas- toral poets from Theocritus downwards , in which Philips was largely quoted and pronounced to be the legitimate successor of Spenser . This exaggerated praise , dictated by friendship , was galling to Pope ...
... Tickell , reviewing the pas- toral poets from Theocritus downwards , in which Philips was largely quoted and pronounced to be the legitimate successor of Spenser . This exaggerated praise , dictated by friendship , was galling to Pope ...
Page 111
... Tickell , Ambrose Philips , and Budgell might bask in the ministerial sunshine , but it was better to be with Swift and Bolingbroke in the shade . In the beginning of 1715 was published The Temple of Fame , a Vision , after Chaucer ...
... Tickell , Ambrose Philips , and Budgell might bask in the ministerial sunshine , but it was better to be with Swift and Bolingbroke in the shade . In the beginning of 1715 was published The Temple of Fame , a Vision , after Chaucer ...
Page 114
... Tickell's translation of the First Book of the Iliad . On the 10th of June , Lintot writes that he had delivered upwards of four hundred of the former to subscribers , and in the same letter he informs Pope that he has sent Tickell's ...
... Tickell's translation of the First Book of the Iliad . On the 10th of June , Lintot writes that he had delivered upwards of four hundred of the former to subscribers , and in the same letter he informs Pope that he has sent Tickell's ...
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