Pope's Rape of the LockBlackie & Son, 1899 - 47 pages |
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Page xvii
... spirit of the original , its artificiality , its monotony , and half a dozen others besides , it retains its hold on the general public . In 1716 Pope came with his parents to live nearer London than the sylvan retreats of Binfield . He ...
... spirit of the original , its artificiality , its monotony , and half a dozen others besides , it retains its hold on the general public . In 1716 Pope came with his parents to live nearer London than the sylvan retreats of Binfield . He ...
Page xliv
... spirits in Le Comte de Gabalis , a bright and rather scandal- ous book by the Abbé de Montfaucon de Villars , published in 1670. It struck him that he could incorporate this fairy - like mythology with his heroi - comical poem . When he ...
... spirits in Le Comte de Gabalis , a bright and rather scandal- ous book by the Abbé de Montfaucon de Villars , published in 1670. It struck him that he could incorporate this fairy - like mythology with his heroi - comical poem . When he ...
Page xlvi
... spirits which he intends for benign ones are malignant , and those which he designs for malignant are beneficent to mankind . , The Gnomes he intends for malignant , and the Sylphs for beneficent spirits . Now the Sylphs in this poem ...
... spirits which he intends for benign ones are malignant , and those which he designs for malignant are beneficent to mankind . , The Gnomes he intends for malignant , and the Sylphs for beneficent spirits . Now the Sylphs in this poem ...
Page lii
... the greatest effort of his skill and art as a poet . " It was not only the originality of adopt- ing the Rosicrucian spirits to play in his poem the part which the Greek gods do in classical epic , but the lii INTRODUCTION .
... the greatest effort of his skill and art as a poet . " It was not only the originality of adopt- ing the Rosicrucian spirits to play in his poem the part which the Greek gods do in classical epic , but the lii INTRODUCTION .
Page liii
... spirits . " The sylphs and the gnomes were the deities of the day " , said Mr. Thomas Tyers , the friend of Dr. Johnson , in his Histori- cal Rhapsody on Mr. Pope . The impudent French book from which Pope took them was at once ...
... spirits . " The sylphs and the gnomes were the deities of the day " , said Mr. Thomas Tyers , the friend of Dr. Johnson , in his Histori- cal Rhapsody on Mr. Pope . The impudent French book from which Pope took them was at once ...
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