The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page 2
... probably no distinguished author , having " the vision and the faculty divine , " was ever so free as Pope from all superstitious weak- ness or overpowering romance of sentiment . DATE OF POPE'S BIRTH . 3 There are few circumstances 2 ...
... probably no distinguished author , having " the vision and the faculty divine , " was ever so free as Pope from all superstitious weak- ness or overpowering romance of sentiment . DATE OF POPE'S BIRTH . 3 There are few circumstances 2 ...
Page 3
... probably from mere inattention - mentions the 22nd of May , and Warton follows Johnson . The question is still further perplexed by a passage in one of Pope's letters to his friend Gay - a passage worth quoting for the fine lines it ...
... probably from mere inattention - mentions the 22nd of May , and Warton follows Johnson . The question is still further perplexed by a passage in one of Pope's letters to his friend Gay - a passage worth quoting for the fine lines it ...
Page 13
... probably larger than this ; but he was unambitious and fond of the country ; and when the Revolution came , destroying the hopes and even endangering the lives and property of the Roman Catholics , he withdrew from the City . He was ...
... probably larger than this ; but he was unambitious and fond of the country ; and when the Revolution came , destroying the hopes and even endangering the lives and property of the Roman Catholics , he withdrew from the City . He was ...
Page 19
... probably , his Allegro and Pense- roso . There he inhaled that love of nature which never de- serted him , even when he could see it only with that " inward eye " that told " Of things invisible to mortal sight . " Pope excelled all his ...
... probably , his Allegro and Pense- roso . There he inhaled that love of nature which never de- serted him , even when he could see it only with that " inward eye " that told " Of things invisible to mortal sight . " Pope excelled all his ...
Page 33
... probably set down as a wild , irregular genius , not reducible to rule . Even Addison , in his account of the greatest English poets , written in 1694 , wholly omits Shakspeare , and passes from Spenser to Cowley . It was the fashion of ...
... probably set down as a wild , irregular genius , not reducible to rule . Even Addison , in his account of the greatest English poets , written in 1694 , wholly omits Shakspeare , and passes from Spenser to Cowley . It was the fashion of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance Addison addressed afterwards Alexander Pope appears Arbuthnot Atterbury beauty Binfield Bolingbroke Caryll character Cibber Cleland copy correspondence Court Cowper critic Cromwell Curll dear death Dennis died Duchess Duke Dunciad Earl edition Edmund Curll Edward Blount England English Epistle Essay Essay on Criticism father favour friendship garden grotto Grub-street Journal hand History Homer honour Horace Iliad imitation James Moore Smythe Jervas John Searle Lady Mary letter Lintot literary lived London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Hervey Lord Peterborough Mapledurham Marchmont Martha Blount Memoir Miscellanies Miss Blount never Notes original Oxford person pieces poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope's Portrait printed Prose published Rackett Roscoe satire says sister Spence Steele style Swift taste Teresa thought tion Trans translation Twickenham verses vols volume Walpole Warburton write written wrote Wycherley young