Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 273
... Pope's books , with those of Fenton , are to be seen in the Museum . The parts of Pope are less interlined than the Iliad , and the latter books of the Iliad less than the former . He grew dexterous by practice , and every sheet enabled ...
... Pope's books , with those of Fenton , are to be seen in the Museum . The parts of Pope are less interlined than the Iliad , and the latter books of the Iliad less than the former . He grew dexterous by practice , and every sheet enabled ...
Page 274
... Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence , who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults ; who censured with respect , and praised with alacrity . With this criticism Pope was so little ...
... Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence , who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults ; who censured with respect , and praised with alacrity . With this criticism Pope was so little ...
Page 323
... Pope . In acquired knowledge , the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastick ... Pope in his local manners . The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation , and those of Pope by minute ...
... Pope . In acquired knowledge , the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastick ... Pope in his local manners . The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation , and those of Pope by minute ...
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