Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Pope's Miscellanies ' , many of his early pieces were inserted . 5 Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the success of the Iliad gave encouragement to a version of the Odyssey Pope , weary of the toil , called ...
... Pope's Miscellanies ' , many of his early pieces were inserted . 5 Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the success of the Iliad gave encouragement to a version of the Odyssey Pope , weary of the toil , called ...
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... Pope's was always known3 ; he had mentioned the assistance of two friends in his proposals , and at the end of the work some account is given by Broome of their different parts , which however mentions only five books as written by the ...
... Pope's was always known3 ; he had mentioned the assistance of two friends in his proposals , and at the end of the work some account is given by Broome of their different parts , which however mentions only five books as written by the ...
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... Pope , in the notes to The Dunciad . It is evident that , according to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight and all the notes , equivalent at least to four , had ...
... Pope , in the notes to The Dunciad . It is evident that , according to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight and all the notes , equivalent at least to four , had ...
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... Pope's saying that was too little , and Broome naming seven ; " Well then ( says Pope ) , let's split the difference ; there's six hundred for you . 39 3 Only once , in ch . vii . 2 Fenton wrote to Broome : - ' He has indeed discovered ...
... Pope's saying that was too little , and Broome naming seven ; " Well then ( says Pope ) , let's split the difference ; there's six hundred for you . 39 3 Only once , in ch . vii . 2 Fenton wrote to Broome : - ' He has indeed discovered ...
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 1 1A POPE ' LEXANDER POPE was born in London , May 22 , 1688 2 , of parents whose rank or station was never ascertained : we are informed that they were of ' gentle blood 3 ' ; that his father ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 1 1A POPE ' LEXANDER POPE was born in London , May 22 , 1688 2 , of parents whose rank or station was never ascertained : we are informed that they were of ' gentle blood 3 ' ; that his father ...
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