The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... hands . She languished in this place a considerable time , bore an infinite deal of sickness , and was overwhelmed with the profoundest sorrow . Nature being wea- ried out with continual distress , and being driven at last to despair ...
... hands . She languished in this place a considerable time , bore an infinite deal of sickness , and was overwhelmed with the profoundest sorrow . Nature being wea- ried out with continual distress , and being driven at last to despair ...
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... hand , to Mr. Addison himself , and never made public till by Curl , in his Miscellanies , 12mo . 1727. The lines , indeed , are elegantly sa- tirical , and , in the opinion of many unprejudiced judges , who had opportunities of knowing ...
... hand , to Mr. Addison himself , and never made public till by Curl , in his Miscellanies , 12mo . 1727. The lines , indeed , are elegantly sa- tirical , and , in the opinion of many unprejudiced judges , who had opportunities of knowing ...
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... hands of all readers of taste , while the other is seldom regarded but as a foil to Pope's . It would appear as if Mr. Addison were himself so immersed in party business as to contract his benevolence to the limits of a faction , which ...
... hands of all readers of taste , while the other is seldom regarded but as a foil to Pope's . It would appear as if Mr. Addison were himself so immersed in party business as to contract his benevolence to the limits of a faction , which ...
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... hand of this admirable gardener , " and was the pruning - hook he employed to lop " off every useless branch . " Thus far Madam Dacier differs in her opinion from Mr. Pope concerning Homer ; but these re- marks , which we have just ...
... hand of this admirable gardener , " and was the pruning - hook he employed to lop " off every useless branch . " Thus far Madam Dacier differs in her opinion from Mr. Pope concerning Homer ; but these re- marks , which we have just ...
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... hand , with a goodness and frank- ness peculiar to her , protested to forgive it ; so that there remained no animosities between those two great admirers and translators of Homer . Mr. Pope , by his successful translation of the Iliad ...
... hand , with a goodness and frank- ness peculiar to her , protested to forgive it ; so that there remained no animosities between those two great admirers and translators of Homer . Mr. Pope , by his successful translation of the Iliad ...
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