The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... piece of gold . The poet , then only five years of age , is not forgotten : " To my nephew and godson , Alexander Pope , my painted china dish , with a silver foot and a dish to set it in ; and , after my sister Elizabeth Turner's ...
... piece of gold . The poet , then only five years of age , is not forgotten : " To my nephew and godson , Alexander Pope , my painted china dish , with a silver foot and a dish to set it in ; and , after my sister Elizabeth Turner's ...
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... piece : there was Milton's style in one part , and Cowley's in another ; here the style of Spenser imitated , and there of Statius ; here Homer and Virgil , and there Ovid and Claudian . " It was an imitative poem , then , as your other ...
... piece : there was Milton's style in one part , and Cowley's in another ; here the style of Spenser imitated , and there of Statius ; here Homer and Virgil , and there Ovid and Claudian . " It was an imitative poem , then , as your other ...
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... piece De Senectute in this early period , and there is a copy of it in Lord Oxford's library . My first taking to imitating was not out of vanity but humility . I saw how defective my own things were , and endeavoured to mend my manner ...
... piece De Senectute in this early period , and there is a copy of it in Lord Oxford's library . My first taking to imitating was not out of vanity but humility . I saw how defective my own things were , and endeavoured to mend my manner ...
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... pieces , " as we do sun- beams , to improve their energy and force ; " some he took quite away , as we take branches from a tree to add to the fruit ; " and others he " entirely new expressed and turned more into poetry . ' And he adds ...
... pieces , " as we do sun- beams , to improve their energy and force ; " some he took quite away , as we take branches from a tree to add to the fruit ; " and others he " entirely new expressed and turned more into poetry . ' And he adds ...
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... pieces are wholly unworthy the author of the Plain Dealer ; but the " Maxims and Moral Reflections " in prose -three ... piece on " The Various Mixed Life . " He brought the skill of the.
... pieces are wholly unworthy the author of the Plain Dealer ; but the " Maxims and Moral Reflections " in prose -three ... piece on " The Various Mixed Life . " He brought the skill of the.
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