The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... Blount . This has been copied by every succeeding biographer , and forms the groundwork of various conjectures and discussions by Bowles and Roscoe . The importance of this seemingly trifling mistake will be best seen by an example taken.
... Blount . This has been copied by every succeeding biographer , and forms the groundwork of various conjectures and discussions by Bowles and Roscoe . The importance of this seemingly trifling mistake will be best seen by an example taken.
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... copy of the subscription edition of the Odyssey , in five volumes , quarto a present which was highly valued , and is still preserved . An occasional correspondence was afterwards kept up between them , of which one letter re- mains ...
... copy of the subscription edition of the Odyssey , in five volumes , quarto a present which was highly valued , and is still preserved . An occasional correspondence was afterwards kept up between them , of which one letter re- mains ...
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... copy in the possession of W. Murray , Esq . , of Geanies , Ross - shire . The original was in the hands of the late Joseph Gordon , W.S. , Edinburgh . Mr. Pope , the clergyman , was a good scholar and antiquary . He translated Torfous's ...
... copy in the possession of W. Murray , Esq . , of Geanies , Ross - shire . The original was in the hands of the late Joseph Gordon , W.S. , Edinburgh . Mr. Pope , the clergyman , was a good scholar and antiquary . He translated Torfous's ...
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... copy by me till I burnt it by the advice of the Bishop of Rochester , a little before he went abroad . I endeavoured ( said he , smiling ) in this poem to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece : there was ...
... copy by me till I burnt it by the advice of the Bishop of Rochester , a little before he went abroad . I endeavoured ( said he , smiling ) in this poem to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece : there was ...
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... 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 by copy- ing good strokes from others . My epic was about ...
... 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 by copy- ing good strokes from others . My epic was about ...
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