Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 |
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He was , as Pope says , fed with dedications ; for Tickell affirms that no dedicator was unrewarded . To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery , and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehood of ...
He was , as Pope says , fed with dedications ; for Tickell affirms that no dedicator was unrewarded . To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery , and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehood of ...
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Pope afterwards declared himself convinced that Garth died in the communion of the Church of Rome , having been privately reconciled . It is observed by Lowth , that there is less distance than is thought between scepticism and popery ...
Pope afterwards declared himself convinced that Garth died in the communion of the Church of Rome , having been privately reconciled . It is observed by Lowth , that there is less distance than is thought between scepticism and popery ...
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The last line of Cato is Pope's , having been originally written And , oh ! ' twas this that ended Cato's life . Pope might have made more objections to the six concluding lines . In the first couplet the words from hence are improper ...
The last line of Cato is Pope's , having been originally written And , oh ! ' twas this that ended Cato's life . Pope might have made more objections to the six concluding lines . In the first couplet the words from hence are improper ...
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