The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 6J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... correct taste for the productions of literature . He appears to have watched over the youth of Pope with the affection of a parent and the feelings of a friend . When Pope bade fare- well to Windsor Forest to reside at Twickenham , he ...
... correct taste for the productions of literature . He appears to have watched over the youth of Pope with the affection of a parent and the feelings of a friend . When Pope bade fare- well to Windsor Forest to reside at Twickenham , he ...
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... Many of the letters from Pope to Wycherley in this collection , are not less beautifully illustrative 22 of the subject , than critically correct ; and Disclaiming the praises of Mr Wycherley, and concerning the author's Pastorals.
... Many of the letters from Pope to Wycherley in this collection , are not less beautifully illustrative 22 of the subject , than critically correct ; and Disclaiming the praises of Mr Wycherley, and concerning the author's Pastorals.
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... correct ; and there seems no reason to attribute the expressions of kindness , which occasionally occur in the correspondence , to any other motives than admiration and gratitude on the one hand , and attachment and respect on the other ...
... correct ; and there seems no reason to attribute the expressions of kindness , which occasionally occur in the correspondence , to any other motives than admiration and gratitude on the one hand , and attachment and respect on the other ...
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... correct my lines , but my life . As to the damned verses I entrusted you with , I hope you will let them undergo your purgatory , to save them from other people's damning them : since the critics , who are generally the first damned in ...
... correct my lines , but my life . As to the damned verses I entrusted you with , I hope you will let them undergo your purgatory , to save them from other people's damning them : since the critics , who are generally the first damned in ...
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... correct me , than the same hand that raised a tree has to prune it . I am convinced , as well as you , that one may correct too much ; for in poetry , as in painting , a man may lay colours one upon another till they stiffen and deaden ...
... correct me , than the same hand that raised a tree has to prune it . I am convinced , as well as you , that one may correct too much ; for in poetry , as in painting , a man may lay colours one upon another till they stiffen and deaden ...
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Addison admirers Æneid appear assure believe Bernard Gascoign Bishop Atterbury cæsura Cato Catullus comedy compliment critics CROMWELL Curll damned desire Dryden dulness Eclogues edition Epic Poetry Essay Essay on Criticism esteem expressed fame faults favour friendship give glad good-nature happy hiatus Homer honour hope judgment kind lady LETTER lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucan ment mind Miscellanies modesty Muses nature ness never numbers obliged observe opinion Ovid papers pastoral pause pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's Literary Correspondence praise pray Priam printed published Quintilian racter received remarks rhyme scribbler sense shew sincerity SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL solitude sort Statius syllables Tatler tell thing thought tion told town translation true Tycho Brahe vanity verses versification VIII Virgil volume WALSH Warburton Warton Whig wish words write Wycherley Wycherley's young