The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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... dead the Phrygian plain , Heroes And peopled the dark hell with heroes slain ; fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely The encouragement given to this translation , I though report seems to have overrated it , was such as the world ...
... dead the Phrygian plain , Heroes And peopled the dark hell with heroes slain ; fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely The encouragement given to this translation , I though report seems to have overrated it , was such as the world ...
Page xxiv
... dead yet ? " She is said to have neglected him , equally in vain against Cibber and Osborn ; being with shameful unkindness , in the latter time of his repelled by the impenetrable impudence of one , decay ; yet , of the little which he ...
... dead yet ? " She is said to have neglected him , equally in vain against Cibber and Osborn ; being with shameful unkindness , in the latter time of his repelled by the impenetrable impudence of one , decay ; yet , of the little which he ...
Page xxix
... dead ; he read his compositions to his friends , that he ever lost his belief of Revelation . The and was never content with mediocrity , when ex positions which he transmitted from Bolingbroke cellence could be attained . He considered ...
... dead ; he read his compositions to his friends , that he ever lost his belief of Revelation . The and was never content with mediocrity , when ex positions which he transmitted from Bolingbroke cellence could be attained . He considered ...
Page xxxviii
... dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the lot of man , or incline us much to wonder that he should die . What is meant by " judge of nature , " is not easy to say . Nature is not the ob- ject of human judgment ; for it is ...
... dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the lot of man , or incline us much to wonder that he should die . What is meant by " judge of nature , " is not easy to say . Nature is not the ob- ject of human judgment ; for it is ...
Page xli
... dead . a child , make a poor and vulgar contrast , and raise no ideas of excellence either intellectual or moral . In the next couplet rage is less properly intro- duced after the mention of mildness and gentleness , At the third ...
... dead . a child , make a poor and vulgar contrast , and raise no ideas of excellence either intellectual or moral . In the next couplet rage is less properly intro- duced after the mention of mildness and gentleness , At the third ...
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