The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, EtcHurst & Company, 1895 - 550 pages |
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... write by imitating printed books , which he did with great skill . The parents of Pope were Roman Catholics ; he was con- sequently placed with a Catholic priest , who resided in Hampshire , for education . The child was then eight ...
... write by imitating printed books , which he did with great skill . The parents of Pope were Roman Catholics ; he was con- sequently placed with a Catholic priest , who resided in Hampshire , for education . The child was then eight ...
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... write verses , criticis ing them , and never consenting to be satisfied till they had been made as perfect as the young poet could render them ; that " best " attained , he would say with paternal satisfac- tion , " These are good ...
... write verses , criticis ing them , and never consenting to be satisfied till they had been made as perfect as the young poet could render them ; that " best " attained , he would say with paternal satisfac- tion , " These are good ...
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... writer of the ag ju passing away ; the selfish old roué anxious to use the great talents of the young poet in the re- vision of his own writings . By Wycherley , the “ Pastorals " were shown to Cromwell , an amateur critic and man of ...
... writer of the ag ju passing away ; the selfish old roué anxious to use the great talents of the young poet in the re- vision of his own writings . By Wycherley , the “ Pastorals " were shown to Cromwell , an amateur critic and man of ...
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... write satires " ) he published the " Dunciad . " Of the first edition , his old antagonist Theobald was the hero ; in a future one he gave the place to Colley Cibber . The poem has ceased to have any interest save as a 22 curiosity ...
... write satires " ) he published the " Dunciad . " Of the first edition , his old antagonist Theobald was the hero ; in a future one he gave the place to Colley Cibber . The poem has ceased to have any interest save as a 22 curiosity ...
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... writer we transcribe the closing scenes of Pope's life : - 66 In May , 1744 , his death was approaching ; on the sixth , he was all day delirious , which he mentioned four days afterwards as a sufficient humiliation of the vanity of man ...
... writer we transcribe the closing scenes of Pope's life : - 66 In May , 1744 , his death was approaching ; on the sixth , he was all day delirious , which he mentioned four days afterwards as a sufficient humiliation of the vanity of man ...
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