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... sense of fair play , and in a short time Oxford University and a majority of London readers proclaimed the su- periority of Pope's translation to that of Tickell . The superiority of Pope's version lay in the fact that although Tickell ...
... sense of fair play , and in a short time Oxford University and a majority of London readers proclaimed the su- periority of Pope's translation to that of Tickell . The superiority of Pope's version lay in the fact that although Tickell ...
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... sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests in giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the Sun. In the last couplet quoted , Pope compares the neo - Platonists with Eastern mystics in a seemingly innocent simile . A ...
... sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests in giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the Sun. In the last couplet quoted , Pope compares the neo - Platonists with Eastern mystics in a seemingly innocent simile . A ...
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... Sense . ( 11. 177–80 ) Unlike the " Epistle to Bathurst " with its galaxy of portraits , the " Epistle to Burlington " has only one stellar sketch - that of " Timon . " It is the exemplum of bad taste , of vulgarity ( 11 . 99-168 ) ...
... Sense . ( 11. 177–80 ) Unlike the " Epistle to Bathurst " with its galaxy of portraits , the " Epistle to Burlington " has only one stellar sketch - that of " Timon . " It is the exemplum of bad taste , of vulgarity ( 11 . 99-168 ) ...
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