Pope's Rape of the LockBlackie & Son, 1899 - 47 pages |
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Page xi
... fashion with literary interests ; Lord Halifax , the friend of Prior ; Dr. Garth , the author of the Dispensary ; Congreve the dramatist , and others . Wycherley praised them warmly in his lines To my Friend Mr. Pope , which graced the ...
... fashion with literary interests ; Lord Halifax , the friend of Prior ; Dr. Garth , the author of the Dispensary ; Congreve the dramatist , and others . Wycherley praised them warmly in his lines To my Friend Mr. Pope , which graced the ...
Page xviii
... fashion of landscape - gardening . Between the villa and the garden ran a tunnel under the road , and this Pope , in the taste of a retired publican , decorated with looking - glasses , bits of spar , and petrifactions , and converted ...
... fashion of landscape - gardening . Between the villa and the garden ran a tunnel under the road , and this Pope , in the taste of a retired publican , decorated with looking - glasses , bits of spar , and petrifactions , and converted ...
Page xxxv
... fashion . He loves the hard sparkle of telling phrases , without a modifying adverb . The soft glow which comes from moderation , accuracy , and fulness of statement has no attraction for him . In this he resembles many of the great ...
... fashion . He loves the hard sparkle of telling phrases , without a modifying adverb . The soft glow which comes from moderation , accuracy , and fulness of statement has no attraction for him . In this he resembles many of the great ...
Page xl
... fashion . We only retain the old sounds in the words great and an approach to it in pear . E followed by a consonant and another mute e is also pronounced in this way . Thus Pope rhymes complete with great , take with speak . The symbol ...
... fashion . We only retain the old sounds in the words great and an approach to it in pear . E followed by a consonant and another mute e is also pronounced in this way . Thus Pope rhymes complete with great , take with speak . The symbol ...
Page xlii
... fashion might bring about a return of peace . He desired him " to write a poem to make a jest of it and laugh them together again . It was with this view " , as Pope told Spence , " that I wrote the Rape of the Lock , which was well ...
... fashion might bring about a return of peace . He desired him " to write a poem to make a jest of it and laugh them together again . It was with this view " , as Pope told Spence , " that I wrote the Rape of the Lock , which was well ...
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