The Works of Alexander Pope: 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 6C. a J. Rivington, 1824 |
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Page 28
... observe a striking similarity . Both poets ; both devoted to their art ; both avoiding a marriage life ; and equally remarkable for affectionate attachment to an aged mother . Both possessed of an elegant sufficiency , and providing ...
... observe a striking similarity . Both poets ; both devoted to their art ; both avoiding a marriage life ; and equally remarkable for affectionate attachment to an aged mother . Both possessed of an elegant sufficiency , and providing ...
Page 43
... observation : " I am glad to find in your smaller edition , that your con- science has since given this line some correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : The players and I are luckily ...
... observation : " I am glad to find in your smaller edition , that your con- science has since given this line some correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : The players and I are luckily ...
Page 48
... observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Ho- race are more agreeable than ...
... observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Ho- race are more agreeable than ...
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... Man ; but we must admit that many of his observations were well founded , and that they evince considerable classical knowledge , as well as shrewdness . Bowles . If want provoked , or madness made them print , 52 PROLOGUE TO.
... Man ; but we must admit that many of his observations were well founded , and that they evince considerable classical knowledge , as well as shrewdness . Bowles . If want provoked , or madness made them print , 52 PROLOGUE TO.
Page 53
... observed , in favour of Pope , that Dr. Clarke , whose critical exactness is well known , has not been able to point out above three or four mistakes in the sense throughout the whole Iliad . The real faults of that trans- lation are of ...
... observed , in favour of Pope , that Dr. Clarke , whose critical exactness is well known , has not been able to point out above three or four mistakes in the sense throughout the whole Iliad . The real faults of that trans- lation are of ...
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