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... Walpole and the poetical career of Pope . Limitations of the Whig régime , on the one side , and of the Classical School of English poetry , on the other . Evolution of Pope's ethical manner . CHAPTER VII DEVELOPMENT OF THE ETHICAL ...
... Walpole and the poetical career of Pope . Limitations of the Whig régime , on the one side , and of the Classical School of English poetry , on the other . Evolution of Pope's ethical manner . CHAPTER VII DEVELOPMENT OF THE ETHICAL ...
Page xvii
... Walpole and the rise of the younger Pitt . Result of the Constitutional Settlement of 1688 , and the gradual transition to democratic forms of Government . The political change reflected in poetry . Satire the form of poetry congenial ...
... Walpole and the rise of the younger Pitt . Result of the Constitutional Settlement of 1688 , and the gradual transition to democratic forms of Government . The political change reflected in poetry . Satire the form of poetry congenial ...
Page xxiii
... Walpole . The contrast in their characters symbolical of the change in English society . The common features in their Whiggism . Horace Walpole's correspondence illustrative of the change in national character : his ennui : his ...
... Walpole . The contrast in their characters symbolical of the change in English society . The common features in their Whiggism . Horace Walpole's correspondence illustrative of the change in national character : his ennui : his ...
Page 93
... Walpole had been imprisoned , and whither he himself was sent in 1715 , after the accession of George I. , while Walpole returned to office : - Good unexpected , evil unforeseen , Appear by turns , as Fortune shifts the scene . Some ...
... Walpole had been imprisoned , and whither he himself was sent in 1715 , after the accession of George I. , while Walpole returned to office : - Good unexpected , evil unforeseen , Appear by turns , as Fortune shifts the scene . Some ...
Page 128
... to reflect the deepening gloom which was settling on his spirit . His attacks on Walpole , now Prime Minister , grew more virulent ; his reflections on the Queen , whom he accused of breaking 128 CHAP . A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY.
... to reflect the deepening gloom which was settling on his spirit . His attacks on Walpole , now Prime Minister , grew more virulent ; his reflections on the Queen , whom he accused of breaking 128 CHAP . A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY.
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