Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... Pope's Miscellanies , many of his early pieces were inserted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely con- nected . When the success of the Iliad gave encourage- ment to a version of the Odyssey , Pope , weary of the toil , called ...
... Pope's Miscellanies , many of his early pieces were inserted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely con- nected . When the success of the Iliad gave encourage- ment to a version of the Odyssey , Pope , weary of the toil , called ...
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... Pope testified that , whatever might be the seeming or real import of the principles which he had received from ... Pope's death they had a dispute , from which they parted with mutual aversion . From this time Pope lived in the ...
... Pope testified that , whatever might be the seeming or real import of the principles which he had received from ... Pope's death they had a dispute , from which they parted with mutual aversion . From this time Pope lived in the ...
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... Pope had perhaps the judgement of Dryden ; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope . In acquired knowledge , the ... Pope's is a velvet lawn , shaven by the scythe , and levelled by the roller . Of genius , that power which ...
... Pope had perhaps the judgement of Dryden ; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope . In acquired knowledge , the ... Pope's is a velvet lawn , shaven by the scythe , and levelled by the roller . Of genius , that power which ...
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