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Page 348
... 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 alacrity . 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 alacrity . With this criticism Pope was so little ...
Page 354
... Pope's life which seems to deserve some inquiry was a publication of Letters between him and many of his friends ... Pope incited a prosecution against him in the House of Lords for breach of privilege , and attended himself to stimulate ...
... Pope's life which seems to deserve some inquiry was a publication of Letters between him and many of his friends ... Pope incited a prosecution against him in the House of Lords for breach of privilege , and attended himself to stimulate ...
Page 386
... Pope in his local manners . The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation , and those of Pope by minute attention . There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden , and more certainty in that of Pope . Poetry was not ...
... Pope in his local manners . The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation , and those of Pope by minute attention . There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden , and more certainty in that of Pope . Poetry was not ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote