Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Pope , to insult the third Duke of Devonshire , renewed the attack : - ' When servile chaplains cry , that birth and ... Pope's Works , iv . 302. Warburton quotes Steele , who had held the post , as saying that ' the rule observed by all ...
... Pope , to insult the third Duke of Devonshire , renewed the attack : - ' When servile chaplains cry , that birth and ... Pope's Works , iv . 302. Warburton quotes Steele , who had held the post , as saying that ' the rule observed by all ...
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... Pope in the character of Bufo with acrimonious contempt * . He was , as Pope says , ' fed with. 11 Halifax's appointment to the regency took effect , from the King's arrival in England on Sept. 18. On Oct. 5 Halifax was made first ...
... Pope in the character of Bufo with acrimonious contempt * . He was , as Pope says , ' fed with. 11 Halifax's appointment to the regency took effect , from the King's arrival in England on Sept. 18. On Oct. 5 Halifax was made first ...
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... Pope's dedication , admitted him as a favourite companion to his convivial hours ' , but , as it seems often to have happened entrance than either at Oxford or Cambridge . ' GOLDSMITH , Works , iv . 129 . The canonical age is twenty ...
... Pope's dedication , admitted him as a favourite companion to his convivial hours ' , but , as it seems often to have happened entrance than either at Oxford or Cambridge . ' GOLDSMITH , Works , iv . 129 . The canonical age is twenty ...
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... Pope's Works ( Elwin and Court- hope ) , iii . 189 ; post , POPE , 124 . Pope , at the end of his notes on the Iliad , speaks of ' those beautiful pieces of poetry , the publication of which Dr. Parnell left to my charge , almost with ...
... Pope's Works ( Elwin and Court- hope ) , iii . 189 ; post , POPE , 124 . Pope , at the end of his notes on the Iliad , speaks of ' those beautiful pieces of poetry , the publication of which Dr. Parnell left to my charge , almost with ...
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... Pope ' , was borrowed from Secundus ; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read I could not ... Pope's Selecta Poe- mata Italorum , 1740 , ii . 69 . Parnell's version begins ( Eng . Poets , xxvii . 19 ) : — ' Gay ...
... Pope ' , was borrowed from Secundus ; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read I could not ... Pope's Selecta Poe- mata Italorum , 1740 , ii . 69 . Parnell's version begins ( Eng . Poets , xxvii . 19 ) : — ' Gay ...
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