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... Addison , as was The Rape of the Lock , which , in its simpler version , appeared a year later . The publication of the translations from Homer , the first instal- ment of which - the first four books of the Iliad was published in 1715 ...
... Addison , as was The Rape of the Lock , which , in its simpler version , appeared a year later . The publication of the translations from Homer , the first instal- ment of which - the first four books of the Iliad was published in 1715 ...
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... Addison and Steele praised him , and valued his few contributions to the Spectator . Against Addison presently Pope was able to reckon three several offences . He had preferred the pastorals of Philips ; he disapproved of the changes in ...
... Addison and Steele praised him , and valued his few contributions to the Spectator . Against Addison presently Pope was able to reckon three several offences . He had preferred the pastorals of Philips ; he disapproved of the changes in ...
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... downfall of the Pope and the King of France , then at war with the English . POPE . - Partridge was the butt of Swift's famous hoax in 1707. See Macaulay's Essay on Addison . AN ESSAY ON MAN TO H. ST . JOHN LORD THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . 39.
... downfall of the Pope and the King of France , then at war with the English . POPE . - Partridge was the butt of Swift's famous hoax in 1707. See Macaulay's Essay on Addison . AN ESSAY ON MAN TO H. ST . JOHN LORD THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . 39.
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... orbis РОРЕ . Impavidum ferient ruinæ . - POPE . In translating this ode , Addison had used the phrase , " the mighty crack " ( 86 above ) , and Pope had ridiculed him for it . » He spins the slight , self - pleasing thread 92 POPE .
... orbis РОРЕ . Impavidum ferient ruinæ . - POPE . In translating this ode , Addison had used the phrase , " the mighty crack " ( 86 above ) , and Pope had ridiculed him for it . » He spins the slight , self - pleasing thread 92 POPE .
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... Addison's and a writer of sugary pastorals , which gained him the nickname of Namby - pamby Philips . A Bishop Boulter became his patron . 101. Sappho is the name which Pope applies to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . In 369 , below , he ...
... Addison's and a writer of sugary pastorals , which gained him the nickname of Namby - pamby Philips . A Bishop Boulter became his patron . 101. Sappho is the name which Pope applies to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . In 369 , below , he ...
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Page 23 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
Page 24 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a matadore, Then each, according to the rank they bore ; For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place.
Page 31 - Dreadful, as hermits' dreams in haunted shades, Or bright, as visions of expiring maids. Now glaring fiends, and snakes on rolling spires...
Page 91 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Page 47 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 23 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Page 54 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 47 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 46 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 46 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.