The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page v
... never out of his hands ; they became his model , and from them alone he learned the whole magic of his versification . The first of our author's compositions now ex- tant in print , is an Ode on Solitude , written before he was twelve ...
... never out of his hands ; they became his model , and from them alone he learned the whole magic of his versification . The first of our author's compositions now ex- tant in print , is an Ode on Solitude , written before he was twelve ...
Page ix
... never marry an old man " again . " I cannot help remarking , that sickness " which often destroys both wit and wisdom , yet " seldom has power to remove that talent we call " humour : Mr. Wycherley shewed this even in " this last ...
... never marry an old man " again . " I cannot help remarking , that sickness " which often destroys both wit and wisdom , yet " seldom has power to remove that talent we call " humour : Mr. Wycherley shewed this even in " this last ...
Page xiii
... 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 the character of Mr. Addison , are ...
... 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 the character of Mr. Addison , are ...
Page xvii
... never seen in manuscript , bore away the palm from that very translation he himself asserted was done in the true spirit of Homer ? In matters of genius the public judgment seldom errs , and in this case pos- terity has confirmed the ...
... never seen in manuscript , bore away the palm from that very translation he himself asserted was done in the true spirit of Homer ? In matters of genius the public judgment seldom errs , and in this case pos- terity has confirmed the ...
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... never valued himself upon that per- formance , nor was it a task in the least adapted to his genius ; for it seldom happens that a man of lively parts can undergo the servile drudgery of collecting passages , in which more industry and ...
... never valued himself upon that per- formance , nor was it a task in the least adapted to his genius ; for it seldom happens that a man of lively parts can undergo the servile drudgery of collecting passages , in which more industry and ...
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