The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence |
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... critic and satirist . He was flogged for the offence , and his indulgent father , in resentment , took him away , and placed him in a London school . This was kept by Thomas Deane , one of King James's converts in Oxford , who had been ...
... critic and satirist . He was flogged for the offence , and his indulgent father , in resentment , took him away , and placed him in a London school . This was kept by Thomas Deane , one of King James's converts in Oxford , who had been ...
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... critic's " great , vigorous , and active mind would not be able to destroy his little , tender , and crazy carcase . " The " infallible Pope " proceeded , and letters were interchanged full of forced wit and hollow professions of great ...
... critic's " great , vigorous , and active mind would not be able to destroy his little , tender , and crazy carcase . " The " infallible Pope " proceeded , and letters were interchanged full of forced wit and hollow professions of great ...
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... critic to an end . The unfortunate manuscripts were re- called , and Pope about the same time wrote to say , that as merely marking the repetitions on the margin would not get rid of those repetitions , nor rectify the method , connect ...
... critic to an end . The unfortunate manuscripts were re- called , and Pope about the same time wrote to say , that as merely marking the repetitions on the margin would not get rid of those repetitions , nor rectify the method , connect ...
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... critic ; he dressed well , as Dennis has recorded , was knight of the shire in Parliament , and lived in ease at his ... critics of that day- in some measure sanctioned by the example of Dryden- to restrict their notions of correctness ...
... critic ; he dressed well , as Dennis has recorded , was knight of the shire in Parliament , and lived in ease at his ... critics of that day- in some measure sanctioned by the example of Dryden- to restrict their notions of correctness ...
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... critics ! " Byron has versified the same sentiment , and much in the style of Pope : " What is the end of Fame ? " Tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; Some liken it to climbing up a hill , Whose summit , like all ...
... critics ! " Byron has versified the same sentiment , and much in the style of Pope : " What is the end of Fame ? " Tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; Some liken it to climbing up a hill , Whose summit , like all ...
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