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... verses containing this couplet : " Whilst none thy crabbed numbers can endure , Hard as thy heart and as thy birth obscure : ” Pope indignantly repelled the accusation as to his descent . " I am sorry ( he said ) to be obliged to such a ...
... verses containing this couplet : " Whilst none thy crabbed numbers can endure , Hard as thy heart and as thy birth obscure : ” Pope indignantly repelled the accusation as to his descent . " I am sorry ( he said ) to be obliged to such a ...
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... verses or send profane letters in Holy Week under the eye of his father . Mr. Pottinger , It 3 Warton's Essay on Pope , v . ii . p . 256 ( edit . of 1806 ) . Richard Pottinger , M.P. for Reading , died in 1740. This may have been Pope's ...
... verses or send profane letters in Holy Week under the eye of his father . Mr. Pottinger , It 3 Warton's Essay on Pope , v . ii . p . 256 ( edit . of 1806 ) . Richard Pottinger , M.P. for Reading , died in 1740. This may have been Pope's ...
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... verses , he says , " farther back than I can well remember . " Ogilby's translation of Homer was one of the first large poems he read , and , in after life , he spoke of the rapture it afforded him . " I was then about eight years old ...
... verses , he says , " farther back than I can well remember . " Ogilby's translation of Homer was one of the first large poems he read , and , in after life , he spoke of the rapture it afforded him . " I was then about eight years old ...
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... verses ; and , as his mother related to Spence , often sent him back to " new turn " them , saying , " These are not good rhymes , ' for that was my husband's word for verses . ” pupil , however , soon shot far ahead of his master . on ...
... verses ; and , as his mother related to Spence , often sent him back to " new turn " them , saying , " These are not good rhymes , ' for that was my husband's word for verses . ” pupil , however , soon shot far ahead of his master . on ...
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... verses each ; and had the copy by me till I burnt it by the advice of the Bishop of Rochester , a little before he went abroad . I endeavoured ( said he , smiling ) in this poem to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into ...
... verses each ; and had the copy by me till I burnt it by the advice of the Bishop of Rochester , a little before he went abroad . I endeavoured ( said he , smiling ) in this poem to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into ...
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