The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page ii
... Verses of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham 398 A Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit ib . Macer . A Character 399 Song by a Person of Quality 400 On a certain Lady at Court 401 ib . On his Grotto at Twickenham On receiving from ...
... Verses of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham 398 A Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit ib . Macer . A Character 399 Song by a Person of Quality 400 On a certain Lady at Court 401 ib . On his Grotto at Twickenham On receiving from ...
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... verses farther back than he could well remember ; and at eight years of age , when he was put under one Taverner a priest , who taught him the rudi ments of the Latin and Greek tongues at the same time , he met with Ogilby's Homer ...
... verses farther back than he could well remember ; and at eight years of age , when he was put under one Taverner a priest , who taught him the rudi ments of the Latin and Greek tongues at the same time , he met with Ogilby's Homer ...
Page v
... verses on Silence , in imitation of the Earl of Rochester's Poem on Nothing . Thus we find him no sooner capable of holding the pen than he employed it in writing verses : " He lisp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . " Though we have ...
... verses on Silence , in imitation of the Earl of Rochester's Poem on Nothing . Thus we find him no sooner capable of holding the pen than he employed it in writing verses : " He lisp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . " Though we have ...
Page vii
... verses are very tender and easy . The Au- " thor seems to have a particular genius for that " 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 ...
... verses are very tender and easy . The Au- " thor seems to have a particular genius for that " 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 ...
Page xii
... Verse , the Essay on " the Art of Poetry , and the Essay on Criticism . " In the lives of Addison and Tickell some general hints concerning the quarrel have been thrown out which subsisted between our poet and the former of these ...
... Verse , the Essay on " the Art of Poetry , and the Essay on Criticism . " In the lives of Addison and Tickell some general hints concerning the quarrel have been thrown out which subsisted between our poet and the former of these ...
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