The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1853 - 363 pages |
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Page xlvii
... grace to mourn , — and when he soon afterwards published the Iliad , he thus acknowledged in the preface his obliga- tions : The Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say , whether the advancement of ...
... grace to mourn , — and when he soon afterwards published the Iliad , he thus acknowledged in the preface his obliga- tions : The Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say , whether the advancement of ...
Page lxxxvi
... Grace in the character of Timon , but also wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke , who replied that " he took the application that had been made of it as a sign of the malice of the town against himself . " There is reason to believe ...
... Grace in the character of Timon , but also wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke , who replied that " he took the application that had been made of it as a sign of the malice of the town against himself . " There is reason to believe ...
Page xcviii
... Grace as if they were intended for the por- trait of the Duchess of Buckingham ; but she soon stopped the person who was reading them to her , as the Duchess of Portland informed me , and called out aloud , ' I cannot be so imposed upon ...
... Grace as if they were intended for the por- trait of the Duchess of Buckingham ; but she soon stopped the person who was reading them to her , as the Duchess of Portland informed me , and called out aloud , ' I cannot be so imposed upon ...
Page 25
... grace excel ; Blest nymphs , whose swains those graces sing so well ! 2 An allusion to the Royal Oak , in which Charles II . had been hid from the pursuit after the battle at Worcester . 3 Alludes to the device of the Scottish monarchs ...
... grace excel ; Blest nymphs , whose swains those graces sing so well ! 2 An allusion to the Royal Oak , in which Charles II . had been hid from the pursuit after the battle at Worcester . 3 Alludes to the device of the Scottish monarchs ...
Page 36
... grace the shining scene , Fields ever fresh , and groves for ever green ! There while you rest in amaranthine bowers , Or from those meads select unfading flowers , Behold us kindly , who your name implore , Daphne , our goddess , and ...
... grace the shining scene , Fields ever fresh , and groves for ever green ! There while you rest in amaranthine bowers , Or from those meads select unfading flowers , Behold us kindly , who your name implore , Daphne , our goddess , and ...
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Addison Adrastus ALEXANDER POPE appears Arbuthnot bear beauty Belinda breast bright Brutus charms crown'd Curll death Dryope Dunciad e'en edition Edmund Curll Eloisa Eloisa to Abelard Epistle Essay Eteocles eyes fair fame fate flames flowers Forest fury give gods grace groves hair Halifax hand heart heaven Homer honour Iliad IMITATIONS John Searle Jove kings Lady letter Lintot Lock Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax maid Martha Blount mournful Muses never night numbers nymph o'er pastoral Phoebus plain poem poet poetry Pope Pope's printed published rage reign rise Roscoe sacred Sappho Satires says shades shining sighs sing Singer Sir Richard Steele skies soul Spence Spence's Anecdotes spring swains Swift sylphs sylvan tears Thalestris Thebes thee things thou thought throne tion translation trembling Twickenham verses Vertumnus volume Warburton William Trumbull winds write Wycherley youth