The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... thought , explain the asking eye , And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! " Epistle to Arbuthnot . The elder Pope had been successful in business . He had saved , according to the poet's friend , Martha Blount , about 10,0007 . His ...
... thought , explain the asking eye , And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! " Epistle to Arbuthnot . The elder Pope had been successful in business . He had saved , according to the poet's friend , Martha Blount , about 10,0007 . His ...
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... thought unjust , Denied all posts of profit or of trust : Hopes after hopes of pious Papists fail'd , While mighty WILLIAM'S thundering arm prevail'd . For right hereditary tax'd and fin'd , He stuck to poverty with peace of mind ; And ...
... thought unjust , Denied all posts of profit or of trust : Hopes after hopes of pious Papists fail'd , While mighty WILLIAM'S thundering arm prevail'd . For right hereditary tax'd and fin'd , He stuck to poverty with peace of mind ; And ...
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... thought and em- bodying observation in language terse and appropriate , his critical judgment , the satirical bias of his mind , and a ten- dency , it must be confessed , to dwell on indelicate and dis- agreeable images , all are ...
... thought and em- bodying observation in language terse and appropriate , his critical judgment , the satirical bias of his mind , and a ten- dency , it must be confessed , to dwell on indelicate and dis- agreeable images , all are ...
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... thoughts and expressions . At length the young critic boldly suggested , that with regard to some of the pieces , it would be better to de- POPE CORRECTS WYCHERLEY'S POEMS . 31 stroy the whole frame 30 LIFE OF POPE .
... thoughts and expressions . At length the young critic boldly suggested , that with regard to some of the pieces , it would be better to de- POPE CORRECTS WYCHERLEY'S POEMS . 31 stroy the whole frame 30 LIFE OF POPE .
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... thoughts this in in prose , in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims . This deed di staggered Wycherley , and brought the farce ... thought , and could not all have been reduced from the anile verses . In the poetry , Pope's corrected or ...
... thoughts this in in prose , in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims . This deed di staggered Wycherley , and brought the farce ... thought , and could not all have been reduced from the anile verses . In the poetry , Pope's corrected or ...
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