The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence |
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... taste , and lofty moral feeling that dignify the poet's art . But even when sinning with his con- temporaries he soared far above them , and his English nature at length overcame his French tastes and the fashion of the Court . His ...
... taste , and lofty moral feeling that dignify the poet's art . But even when sinning with his con- temporaries he soared far above them , and his English nature at length overcame his French tastes and the fashion of the Court . His ...
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... taste of the country . His recollections of Windsor Forest , and of the mornings and sunsets he had enjoyed within its broad circumference of shade , or from the " stately brow " of its historic heights , may be tracked like the fresh ...
... taste of the country . His recollections of Windsor Forest , and of the mornings and sunsets he had enjoyed within its broad circumference of shade , or from the " stately brow " of its historic heights , may be tracked like the fresh ...
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... taste in graceful and picturesque landscape gardening . He had an exquisite eye for dressed nature , nature trimmed by Kent , 17 the lawn , the grove , and parterre ; the variety of perspective , the multiplied walks , and bounded ...
... taste in graceful and picturesque landscape gardening . He had an exquisite eye for dressed nature , nature trimmed by Kent , 17 the lawn , the grove , and parterre ; the variety of perspective , the multiplied walks , and bounded ...
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... taste and fine ear for metrical harmony that were thus early developed . His power of condensing thought and em- bodying observation in language terse and appropriate , his critical judgment , the satirical bias of his mind , and a ten ...
... taste and fine ear for metrical harmony that were thus early developed . His power of condensing thought and em- bodying observation in language terse and appropriate , his critical judgment , the satirical bias of his mind , and a ten ...
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... tastes and indefatigable application of Pope . There are errors , however , in Spence's statement , which forbid implicit reliance on all his reve- lations , 20 and it should be borne in mind that none of Pope's 20 Atterbury , for ...
... tastes and indefatigable application of Pope . There are errors , however , in Spence's statement , which forbid implicit reliance on all his reve- lations , 20 and it should be borne in mind that none of Pope's 20 Atterbury , for ...
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