Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Pope ' , was borrowed from Secundus ; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read I could not ... Pope's Selecta Poe- mata Italorum , 1740 , ii . 69 . Parnell's version begins ( Eng . Poets , xxvii . 19 ) : — ' Gay ...
... Pope ' , was borrowed from Secundus ; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read I could not ... Pope's Selecta Poe- mata Italorum , 1740 , ii . 69 . Parnell's version begins ( Eng . Poets , xxvii . 19 ) : — ' Gay ...
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... Pope . Of the large appendages which I find in the last edition I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . They stand upon the faith of the compilers 5 . by the ... Pope's 54 PARNELL.
... Pope . Of the large appendages which I find in the last edition I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . They stand upon the faith of the compilers 5 . by the ... Pope's 54 PARNELL.
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... Pope's statement about Parnell's drinking is Ruffhead ( Life of Pope , p . 492 ) , who says that this account came to him through Warburton from Pope . ' Parnell , ' Ruffhead writes , ' had talents for popular preaching , and began to ...
... Pope's statement about Parnell's drinking is Ruffhead ( Life of Pope , p . 492 ) , who says that this account came to him through Warburton from Pope . ' Parnell , ' Ruffhead writes , ' had talents for popular preaching , and began to ...
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... Pope , ' says that for Radcliffe to leave a library was as if an eunuch should found a seraglio . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , ix . 275. See also Boswell's Johnson , iv . 293 ; John . Misc . ii . 377 . 5 The divines seem to ...
... Pope , ' says that for Radcliffe to leave a library was as if an eunuch should found a seraglio . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , ix . 275. See also Boswell's Johnson , iv . 293 ; John . Misc . ii . 377 . 5 The divines seem to ...
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... POPE , Spence's Anec . p . 337. These pictures , being uniform in size , have given their name to all portraits of that size — 28 inches by 36 . For Pope's epigram on the Club see his Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , iv . 446 , and for ...
... POPE , Spence's Anec . p . 337. These pictures , being uniform in size , have given their name to all portraits of that size — 28 inches by 36 . For Pope's epigram on the Club see his Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , iv . 446 , and for ...
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