Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with a Memoir, Volume 1J.R. Osgood, 1875 |
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... throne by Deucalion , father of Minos , and some other princes . It was better planned than Blackmore's Prince Arthur ; but as slavish an imitation of the ancients . Alcander showed all the virtue of suffering , like Ulysses ; and of ...
... throne by Deucalion , father of Minos , and some other princes . It was better planned than Blackmore's Prince Arthur ; but as slavish an imitation of the ancients . Alcander showed all the virtue of suffering , like Ulysses ; and of ...
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... inordinate desires of one man only . We have , it seems , a great Turk1 in poetry , who 1 This thought Pope afterwards versified in his famous character of Addison . E can never bear a brother on the throne ; MEMOIR OF POPE . li.
... inordinate desires of one man only . We have , it seems , a great Turk1 in poetry , who 1 This thought Pope afterwards versified in his famous character of Addison . E can never bear a brother on the throne ; MEMOIR OF POPE . li.
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Alexander Pope. E can never bear a brother on the throne ; and has his mutes too , a set of nodders , winkers , and whisperers , whose business is to strangle all other offsprings of wit in their birth . The new trans- lator of Homer is ...
Alexander Pope. E can never bear a brother on the throne ; and has his mutes too , a set of nodders , winkers , and whisperers , whose business is to strangle all other offsprings of wit in their birth . The new trans- lator of Homer is ...
Page lvii
... throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet ...
... throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet ...
Page lxx
... throne . Pope , at the request of his friend , attended to give evi- dence . " When I was to appear , " said he to 1 The work was in five volumes quarto , for five guineas . Of the eight hundred and nineteen copies which were printed ...
... throne . Pope , at the request of his friend , attended to give evi- dence . " When I was to appear , " said he to 1 The work was in five volumes quarto , for five guineas . Of the eight hundred and nineteen copies which were printed ...
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