An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 123
... Swift , August 2 , 1731 . 66 - - Does POPE talk to you of the noble work , which , at my inftigation , he has begun in fuch a manner , that he must be convinced , by this time , I judged better of his talents than he did . - The first ...
... Swift , August 2 , 1731 . 66 - - Does POPE talk to you of the noble work , which , at my inftigation , he has begun in fuch a manner , that he must be convinced , by this time , I judged better of his talents than he did . - The first ...
Page 145
... SwIFT had also se- verely fatirized in the Examiner . Her beauty , her abilities , her political intrigues , are fufficiently known + . The violence of her temper frequently broke out into won- derful and ridiculous indecencies . In the ...
... SwIFT had also se- verely fatirized in the Examiner . Her beauty , her abilities , her political intrigues , are fufficiently known + . The violence of her temper frequently broke out into won- derful and ridiculous indecencies . In the ...
Page 158
... Swift , and my old poetical friends . " 18. A Statefman's flumbers how this speech would spoil ! " Sir , Spain has fent a thousand jars of oil ; Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door ; A hundred oxen at your levee roar ...
... Swift , and my old poetical friends . " 18. A Statefman's flumbers how this speech would spoil ! " Sir , Spain has fent a thousand jars of oil ; Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door ; A hundred oxen at your levee roar ...
Page 176
... SwIFT's Intelli- gencers . LORD BATHURST , Lord LYTTELTON , SPENCE , HARTE , and other of his friends , have affured me , that among intimates POPE had an admirable talent for telling a ftory . In great companies he avoided speak- ing ...
... SwIFT's Intelli- gencers . LORD BATHURST , Lord LYTTELTON , SPENCE , HARTE , and other of his friends , have affured me , that among intimates POPE had an admirable talent for telling a ftory . In great companies he avoided speak- ing ...
Page 205
... Swift's Preface to Sir W. Temple's works , and in his tranflations from the French , & c . in that book , there are many inaccurate and almoft ungrammatical ex- preffions : thefe were the very first publications of Swift . late late ...
... Swift's Preface to Sir W. Temple's works , and in his tranflations from the French , & c . in that book , there are many inaccurate and almoft ungrammatical ex- preffions : thefe were the very first publications of Swift . late late ...
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