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... manner , and versification ; and adding to them original powers of wit , fancy , and tenderness , and a brilliancy , condensation , and correctness , which even his master did not reach , and which still remain unsurpassed . ALEXANDER ...
... manner , and versification ; and adding to them original powers of wit , fancy , and tenderness , and a brilliancy , condensation , and correctness , which even his master did not reach , and which still remain unsurpassed . ALEXANDER ...
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... manner by copy- ing good strokes from others . My epic was about two years in hand , from thirteen to fifteen . " These citations exhibit the early tastes and indefatigable application of Pope . There are errors , however , in Spence's ...
... manner by copy- ing good strokes from others . My epic was about two years in hand , from thirteen to fifteen . " These citations exhibit the early tastes and indefatigable application of Pope . There are errors , however , in Spence's ...
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... manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims . This deed di staggered Wycherley , and brought the farce of poet and not critic to an end . The unfortunate manuscripts were re- called , and Pope about the same time wrote to say , that as merely ...
... manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims . This deed di staggered Wycherley , and brought the farce of poet and not critic to an end . The unfortunate manuscripts were re- called , and Pope about the same time wrote to say , that as merely ...
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... manners and ridiculing follies ; and thus , by touching our higher feelings , and ministering to the nobler wants of our intellectual and spiritual nature , " rule over the wilderness D of free minds . " Such an elevation was unattainable.
... manners and ridiculing follies ; and thus , by touching our higher feelings , and ministering to the nobler wants of our intellectual and spiritual nature , " rule over the wilderness D of free minds . " Such an elevation was unattainable.
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... manners . At all events , we see nothing of such super - refined gentility in Congreve's inter- course with Pope , Swift , and his other contemporaries . He was the most delightful as he was the most witty of com- panions . Another of ...
... manners . At all events , we see nothing of such super - refined gentility in Congreve's inter- course with Pope , Swift , and his other contemporaries . He was the most delightful as he was the most witty of com- panions . Another of ...
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