Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... Pope's , Theobald's , Sir Thomas Hanmer's , Bishop Warburton's , all upon the heels of one another ? With such facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to the ...
... Pope's , Theobald's , Sir Thomas Hanmer's , Bishop Warburton's , all upon the heels of one another ? With such facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to the ...
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Thomas De Quincey. POPE ALEXANDER POPE , the most brilliant of all wits who have at any period applied themselves to the poetic treatment of human manners , to the selecting from the play of human character what is picturesque , or the ...
Thomas De Quincey. POPE ALEXANDER POPE , the most brilliant of all wits who have at any period applied themselves to the poetic treatment of human manners , to the selecting from the play of human character what is picturesque , or the ...
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... Pope's extraction and immediate lineage for a space of two generations we know enough . Beyond that we know little . Of this little a part is dubious ; and what we are disposed to receive as not dubious , rests chiefly on his own ...
... Pope's extraction and immediate lineage for a space of two generations we know enough . Beyond that we know little . Of this little a part is dubious ; and what we are disposed to receive as not dubious , rests chiefly on his own ...
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... Pope , ' said Pottinger , had made himself out a fine pedigree , but he wondered where he got it . ' And he then goes on to plead in abatement of Pope's pretensions , that an old maiden aunt , equally related , ' ( that is , standing in ...
... Pope , ' said Pottinger , had made himself out a fine pedigree , but he wondered where he got it . ' And he then goes on to plead in abatement of Pope's pretensions , that an old maiden aunt , equally related , ' ( that is , standing in ...
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... Pope , that he was de- scended from a junior branch of the Downe family . Which testimony has a double value ; first as corrob orating the probability of Pope's statement viewed in the light of a fact ; and , secondly , as corroborating ...
... Pope , that he was de- scended from a junior branch of the Downe family . Which testimony has a double value ; first as corrob orating the probability of Pope's statement viewed in the light of a fact ; and , secondly , as corroborating ...
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