Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism, the Moral Essays, the DunciadLongmans, Green, 1888 - 251 pages |
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... wrote the greater part of Cato in Italy about 1706 , but finished it in 1713. Scott wrote the first portion of Waverley about 1805 , but finished the work and published it in 1814. Might not either of these writers have truly named ...
... wrote the greater part of Cato in Italy about 1706 , but finished it in 1713. Scott wrote the first portion of Waverley about 1805 , but finished the work and published it in 1814. Might not either of these writers have truly named ...
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... wrote , many years later- Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme , A painted mistress , or a purling stream . Yet then did Dennis rave in ...
... wrote , many years later- Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme , A painted mistress , or a purling stream . Yet then did Dennis rave in ...
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... wrote a pamphlet entitled Reflections , Critical and Satirical , upon a late Rhapsody called an Essay on Criti- cism ; ' hitting about him , of course , as hard as he knew how . No one could blame him for doing so , since he had ...
... wrote a pamphlet entitled Reflections , Critical and Satirical , upon a late Rhapsody called an Essay on Criti- cism ; ' hitting about him , of course , as hard as he knew how . No one could blame him for doing so , since he had ...
Page xix
... wrote thus , and Mr. Elwin , without that excuse , adopts and defends the misrepresentation . We are asked to laugh at the sight of a man of genius subject to these little inconsistencies and aberrations ; but we are invited to change ...
... wrote thus , and Mr. Elwin , without that excuse , adopts and defends the misrepresentation . We are asked to laugh at the sight of a man of genius subject to these little inconsistencies and aberrations ; but we are invited to change ...
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... wrote to Swift that his Dulness ( the name by which the poem had been mentioned in several previous letters ) was in future to be called by a more pompous name , the Dunciad . Swift answers ( May 10 ) , ' You talk of this Dunciad , but ...
... wrote to Swift that his Dulness ( the name by which the poem had been mentioned in several previous letters ) was in future to be called by a more pompous name , the Dunciad . Swift answers ( May 10 ) , ' You talk of this Dunciad , but ...
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