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Many are used for narration and exposition ; and while they are fine couplets — even fine poetry — they have little of the rich ambiguity of other norm couplets of similar structure but with different kinds of meaning than pure ...
Many are used for narration and exposition ; and while they are fine couplets — even fine poetry — they have little of the rich ambiguity of other norm couplets of similar structure but with different kinds of meaning than pure ...
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No sooner is the chapel service over than , C But hark ! the chiming Clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble Hall : The rich Buffet well - colour'd Serpents grace , And gaping Tritons spew to wash your face .
No sooner is the chapel service over than , C But hark ! the chiming Clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble Hall : The rich Buffet well - colour'd Serpents grace , And gaping Tritons spew to wash your face .
Page 198
Pope's irony is as rich as ever , but the Satirist , and the poet , who wrote the Epilogue is not the same satirist who wrote the earlier Moral Essays or the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; and the style of the Epilogue expresses this change ...
Pope's irony is as rich as ever , but the Satirist , and the poet , who wrote the Epilogue is not the same satirist who wrote the earlier Moral Essays or the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; and the style of the Epilogue expresses this change ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Pastorals 1709 | 17 |
An Essay on Criticism 1711 | 45 |
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