Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... criticism , however , was commonly just ; what he thought , he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour . In him Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence , who thought it as ...
... criticism , however , was commonly just ; what he thought , he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour . In him Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence , who thought it as ...
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... Criticism ( 1733 ) was written to pay court to Pope , on a subject which he either did not understand or willingly misrepresented ; and is little more than an improvement , or rather expansion , of a fragment which Pope printed in a ...
... Criticism ( 1733 ) was written to pay court to Pope , on a subject which he either did not understand or willingly misrepresented ; and is little more than an improvement , or rather expansion , of a fragment which Pope printed in a ...
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... Criticism AMERICAN CRITICISM . Representative Literary Essays . Chosen by Norman Foerster ( 354 ) . COLERIDGE ( S. T. ) Lectures on Shakespeare ( 363 ) . ENGLISH CRITICAL ESSAYS . Selected and edited by Edmund D. Jones . 2 volumes : I ...
... Criticism AMERICAN CRITICISM . Representative Literary Essays . Chosen by Norman Foerster ( 354 ) . COLERIDGE ( S. T. ) Lectures on Shakespeare ( 363 ) . ENGLISH CRITICAL ESSAYS . Selected and edited by Edmund D. Jones . 2 volumes : I ...
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