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... Pope to have deserved much by his officiousness . This year was printed in " The Guardian " the ironical comparison between the Pastorals of Philips and Pope ; a composition of artifice , criticism , and literature , to which nothing ...
... Pope to have deserved much by his officiousness . This year was printed in " The Guardian " the ironical comparison between the Pastorals of Philips and Pope ; a composition of artifice , criticism , and literature , to which nothing ...
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... Pope had the first experience of a critic without malevolence , who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults ; who censured with respect and praised with ala- crity . With this criticism Pope was so little ...
... Pope had the first experience of a critic without malevolence , who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults ; who censured with respect and praised with ala- crity . With this criticism Pope was so little ...
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... Pope he imputes to a very distant cause . After the " Three Hours after Marriage " had been driven off the stage , by the offence which the mummy and crocodile gave the audience , while the exploded scene was yet fresh in memory , it ...
... Pope he imputes to a very distant cause . After the " Three Hours after Marriage " had been driven off the stage , by the offence which the mummy and crocodile gave the audience , while the exploded scene was yet fresh in memory , it ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt conversation criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Johnson's Lives kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Landsdowne Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young