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... POPE • 67-74 75 82 Appendices K to O 272-276 PITT THOMSON WATTS 277 281 302 PHILIPS , A. Appendices P to R 312 325 ... Pope's Iliad 459 Thomson and the Surveyor - Generalship of the Leeward Islands 459-461 INDEX 463-558 TITLES OF ...
... POPE • 67-74 75 82 Appendices K to O 272-276 PITT THOMSON WATTS 277 281 302 PHILIPS , A. Appendices P to R 312 325 ... Pope's Iliad 459 Thomson and the Surveyor - Generalship of the Leeward Islands 459-461 INDEX 463-558 TITLES OF ...
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... Pope's Essay on Man see Mr. G. A. Aitken's communication to the Athenaeum , Jan. 28 , 1905 . vol . iii , p . 228 n . 4. There is an error here . The comparison is with Dryden's second Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , Alexander's Feast , the ...
... Pope's Essay on Man see Mr. G. A. Aitken's communication to the Athenaeum , Jan. 28 , 1905 . vol . iii , p . 228 n . 4. There is an error here . The comparison is with Dryden's second Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , Alexander's Feast , the ...
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... Pope might 6 be said ' to lisp in numbers , ' and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language ... POPE , 199 . See also Boswell's Johnson , iii . 229 ; John . Misc . i . 241-4 . 4 See Appendix A. 5 POPE , Prol ...
... Pope might 6 be said ' to lisp in numbers , ' and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language ... POPE , 199 . See also Boswell's Johnson , iii . 229 ; John . Misc . i . 241-4 . 4 See Appendix A. 5 POPE , Prol ...
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... POPE , 410 . * Hurd's Cowley , i . 55 . • Wood describes Cowley as ' Anglorum Pindarus , Flaccus , Maro , deliciae , decus et desiderium aevi sui . ' Fasti Oxon . ii . 209. Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : - One of our late great poets is ...
... POPE , 410 . * Hurd's Cowley , i . 55 . • Wood describes Cowley as ' Anglorum Pindarus , Flaccus , Maro , deliciae , decus et desiderium aevi sui . ' Fasti Oxon . ii . 209. Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : - One of our late great poets is ...
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... Pope as being ' that which has 54 been often thought , but was never before so well expressed 4 , ' they certainly ... Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ; he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from ...
... Pope as being ' that which has 54 been often thought , but was never before so well expressed 4 , ' they certainly ... Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ; he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from ...
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