The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volume 11806 |
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Page xxii
... is yet remembered with veneration by many of the inhabitants of the adjacent parishes . They point to the church where his remains repofe , and feem to feel a kind a kind of pride that the noble manfion and domains xxii LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... is yet remembered with veneration by many of the inhabitants of the adjacent parishes . They point to the church where his remains repofe , and feem to feel a kind a kind of pride that the noble manfion and domains xxii LIFE AND WRITINGS.
Page xxiii
... kind- ness .. " old Under fuch aufpices began the poetical career of Pope : the manufcript of his Paftorals was circulated among those who were confidered as competent judges , and the dawn of genius was hailed by all men of ...
... kind- ness .. " old Under fuch aufpices began the poetical career of Pope : the manufcript of his Paftorals was circulated among those who were confidered as competent judges , and the dawn of genius was hailed by all men of ...
Page xxiv
... kind of celebrity . He fays , in his first letter , and probably with truth , " it was certainly a great fatisfaction to me to fee and con- verse with a man , whom in his writings I had fo long known with pleafure . " - Dec . 26 , 1704 ...
... kind of celebrity . He fays , in his first letter , and probably with truth , " it was certainly a great fatisfaction to me to fee and con- verse with a man , whom in his writings I had fo long known with pleafure . " - Dec . 26 , 1704 ...
Page xxxiv
... kind that had appeared in the republic of letters . In the Rape of the Lock , to the mellifluence which distinguished his pastorals , to the " carminis artem , " ( the moft confummate fkill of verfification in its kind , ) he added what ...
... kind that had appeared in the republic of letters . In the Rape of the Lock , to the mellifluence which distinguished his pastorals , to the " carminis artem , " ( the moft confummate fkill of verfification in its kind , ) he added what ...
Page xlix
... kind of reciprocity , between friendship and gallantry , towards the Blounts , continued till it was put to flight , " not by Gay's tapping him on the fhoul- der , " but by fomething more fair , more interefting , more fafcinating than ...
... kind of reciprocity , between friendship and gallantry , towards the Blounts , continued till it was put to flight , " not by Gay's tapping him on the fhoul- der , " but by fomething more fair , more interefting , more fafcinating than ...
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