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... POPE . • • Appendices K to O PITT THOMSON WATTS PHILIPS , A. · Appendices P to R WEST . · COLLINS DYER . Appendix S ... Pope's Iliad PAGE I · • 67-74 75 82 272-276 277 281 302 · 312 325 , 326 328 334 343 347 348 359 361 400 • 411 • 421 ...
... POPE . • • Appendices K to O PITT THOMSON WATTS PHILIPS , A. · Appendices P to R WEST . · COLLINS DYER . Appendix S ... Pope's Iliad PAGE I · • 67-74 75 82 272-276 277 281 302 · 312 325 , 326 328 334 343 347 348 359 361 400 • 411 • 421 ...
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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 . * See Appendix A. 5 POPE , Prol . Sat ...
... 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 . * See Appendix A. 5 POPE , Prol . Sat ...
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... POPE , 410 . Hurd's Cowley , i . 55 . 2 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 . 2 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 " , " 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 " , " 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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