The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney D. C. Heath, 1980 - 765 pages |
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Page 17
... tell the reeds , and tell the vocal shore , Fair Daphne's dead , and music is no more ! Nature is also a vital force in Windsor Forest , although there the other side of Pope's poetic bent can be seen . The loveliness of the forest and ...
... tell the reeds , and tell the vocal shore , Fair Daphne's dead , and music is no more ! Nature is also a vital force in Windsor Forest , although there the other side of Pope's poetic bent can be seen . The loveliness of the forest and ...
Page 188
... tell , That , God prais'd , the Dean is well . Then he who prophecy'd the best , Approves his foresight to the rest : " You know , I always fear'd the worst , And often told you so at first " : He'd rather chuse , that I should die ...
... tell , That , God prais'd , the Dean is well . Then he who prophecy'd the best , Approves his foresight to the rest : " You know , I always fear'd the worst , And often told you so at first " : He'd rather chuse , that I should die ...
Page 258
... tell stories of heroes , and it is therefore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expe- dient ...
... tell stories of heroes , and it is therefore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expe- dient ...
Contents
Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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