The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page vi
... , it cannot so well be considered as a copy of the ancients . Spenser's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever since . the time vi LIFE OF POPE .
... , it cannot so well be considered as a copy of the ancients . Spenser's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever since . the time vi LIFE OF POPE .
Page vii
... kind of poetry , and a judgment that much ex- " ceeds the years you told me he was of . It is no flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written " nothing so good at his age . I shall take it as a " favour if you will bring me ...
... kind of poetry , and a judgment that much ex- " ceeds the years you told me he was of . It is no flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written " nothing so good at his age . I shall take it as a " favour if you will bring me ...
Page ix
... kind of hint as to the order of " time in which they are to be taken . The old " man then lay down satisfied in the conscience " of having , by this one act , paid his just debts , " obliged a woman who , he was told , had merit , " and ...
... kind of hint as to the order of " time in which they are to be taken . The old " man then lay down satisfied in the conscience " of having , by this one act , paid his just debts , " obliged a woman who , he was told , had merit , " and ...
Page xi
... kind . The observations follow one another , " like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without " that methodical regularity which would have " been requisité in à prose writer . They are some " of them uncommon , but such as the reader ...
... kind . The observations follow one another , " like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without " that methodical regularity which would have " been requisité in à prose writer . They are some " of them uncommon , but such as the reader ...
Page xii
... kind of beauty in the numbers , and concludes with saying , " That we have three poems in our tongue " of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its " kind ; the Essay on translated Verse , the Essay on " the Art of Poetry , and ...
... kind of beauty in the numbers , and concludes with saying , " That we have three poems in our tongue " of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its " kind ; the Essay on translated Verse , the Essay on " the Art of Poetry , and ...
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