Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 242
... human shape , as his unthinking immaterial part does from human understanding . ' Thus began the hostility between Pope and Dennis , which , though it was suspended for a short time , never was appeased . Pope seems , at first , to have ...
... human shape , as his unthinking immaterial part does from human understanding . ' Thus began the hostility between Pope and Dennis , which , though it was suspended for a short time , never was appeased . Pope seems , at first , to have ...
Page 420
... human praise or human flattery even less general than this are of little conse- quence . If Young thought the dedication contained only the praise of truth , he should not have omitted it in his works . Was he conscious of the exaggera ...
... human praise or human flattery even less general than this are of little conse- quence . If Young thought the dedication contained only the praise of truth , he should not have omitted it in his works . Was he conscious of the exaggera ...
Page 437
... human skull , with ' a candle in it , as a lamp ; and the poet is reported to have used it . ' What he calls " The true estimate of Human Life , " which has already been mentioned , exhibits only the wrong side of the tapestry ; and ...
... human skull , with ' a candle in it , as a lamp ; and the poet is reported to have used it . ' What he calls " The true estimate of Human Life , " which has already been mentioned , exhibits only the wrong side of the tapestry ; and ...
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