The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... 1727 . Letters to Judith Cowper . Return of Bolingbroke . Edition of Shak- speare , and Translation of the Odyssey . Swift visits England , and Publication of the Miscellanies · 178 • 216 CHAPTER VII . - 1728-1780 . The Dunciad and Grub.
... 1727 . Letters to Judith Cowper . Return of Bolingbroke . Edition of Shak- speare , and Translation of the Odyssey . Swift visits England , and Publication of the Miscellanies · 178 • 216 CHAPTER VII . - 1728-1780 . The Dunciad and Grub.
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... England vacant , with no prospect of an immediate or adequate successor . His dominion had often been disputed , and was assailed to the last ; but as every year strengthened his claims , and as the latter portion of his life was the ...
... England vacant , with no prospect of an immediate or adequate successor . His dominion had often been disputed , and was assailed to the last ; but as every year strengthened his claims , and as the latter portion of his life was the ...
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... England in Hamp- shire , who had two sons , the younger of whom , Alexander , was sent to Lisbon to be placed in a mercantile establish- ment , and that while there he became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church.3 From these ...
... England in Hamp- shire , who had two sons , the younger of whom , Alexander , was sent to Lisbon to be placed in a mercantile establish- ment , and that while there he became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church.3 From these ...
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... England , and in the registers of the Prerogative Will Office in Doctors ' Commons , at least a hundred persons of the name will be found between the years 1600 and 1700.7 It is worthy of notice , that the name was also common at an ...
... England , and in the registers of the Prerogative Will Office in Doctors ' Commons , at least a hundred persons of the name will be found between the years 1600 and 1700.7 It is worthy of notice , that the name was also common at an ...
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... England . The Rev. Mr. Randal , of Binfield , was kind enough to examine the register of marriages from 1690 to 1720 , but found no entry of the marriage of Magdalen Pope , or of any female bearing the Christian name of Magdalen . THE ...
... England . The Rev. Mr. Randal , of Binfield , was kind enough to examine the register of marriages from 1690 to 1720 , but found no entry of the marriage of Magdalen Pope , or of any female bearing the Christian name of Magdalen . THE ...
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Page 229 - Upon this great foundation of misanthropy (though not in Timon's manner) the whole building of my travels is erected ; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion...
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Page 98 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
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Page 109 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
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Page 181 - tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball.
Page 86 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.