The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... printed till 1819 , when it was edited an published by Mr. Samuel Weller Singer . The anecdotes ar interesting and valuable ; but Spence was inferior to Boswe in all the important requisites of industry , correctness , an dramatic ...
... printed till 1819 , when it was edited an published by Mr. Samuel Weller Singer . The anecdotes ar interesting and valuable ; but Spence was inferior to Boswe in all the important requisites of industry , correctness , an dramatic ...
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... printed epistle out of two or more written ones . The lines we have quoted formed part of another poem ; and there is little doubt that the latter portion of the above extract was detached from some other letter , or had been added for ...
... printed epistle out of two or more written ones . The lines we have quoted formed part of another poem ; and there is little doubt that the latter portion of the above extract was detached from some other letter , or had been added for ...
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... printed letters : " I have a kindness to beg of you - that you would please to engage either your son or some other correspondent you can depend upon at Paris , to take the trouble of looking himself into the books of the Hôtel de Ville ...
... printed letters : " I have a kindness to beg of you - that you would please to engage either your son or some other correspondent you can depend upon at Paris , to take the trouble of looking himself into the books of the Hôtel de Ville ...
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... printed books . This art he also retained through life , and often practised with sin- gular neatness and proficiency . Johnson remarks that his ordinary hand was not elegant . But this opinion must have been formed from a hasty survey ...
... printed books . This art he also retained through life , and often practised with sin- gular neatness and proficiency . Johnson remarks that his ordinary hand was not elegant . But this opinion must have been formed from a hasty survey ...
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... printed with the corrections of Walsh . My next work after my epic was my Pastorals , so that I did exactly what Virgil says of himself : " Cum canerem reges et prælia , Cynthius aurem Vellit , et admonuit ; pastorem , Tityre , pingues ...
... printed with the corrections of Walsh . My next work after my epic was my Pastorals , so that I did exactly what Virgil says of himself : " Cum canerem reges et prælia , Cynthius aurem Vellit , et admonuit ; pastorem , Tityre , pingues ...
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