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... Pope will long " the Muse's Annals grace . " " We still prefer the extravagant beauties of Shake- speare and Milton to the cold and well - disciplined merit of Addison and . . . Pope , ” remarked Horace Walpole ( letter to Élie de ...
... Pope will long " the Muse's Annals grace . " " We still prefer the extravagant beauties of Shake- speare and Milton to the cold and well - disciplined merit of Addison and . . . Pope , ” remarked Horace Walpole ( letter to Élie de ...
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... Pope stretched his sails . To be sure , the artificiality of Pope's verse suggests not so much a winged boat as a swift , sharp - prowed launch , with the " put , put " of its exhaust corresponding to the incisive regularity of the ...
... Pope stretched his sails . To be sure , the artificiality of Pope's verse suggests not so much a winged boat as a swift , sharp - prowed launch , with the " put , put " of its exhaust corresponding to the incisive regularity of the ...
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... Pope used the shorter pieces in his early and later work , and , except in The Dunciad and the Homer , borrowed from them quite as much as he did from the epic . Lines or phrases from nearly all of them appear in his verse , - from ...
... Pope used the shorter pieces in his early and later work , and , except in The Dunciad and the Homer , borrowed from them quite as much as he did from the epic . Lines or phrases from nearly all of them appear in his verse , - from ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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