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... morality and religion . Happily this dreary conception , though it occupied much thought , never came to the birth . The time soon came when these tentative flights were to be superseded by more serious efforts . Pope's ambi- tion was ...
... morality and religion . Happily this dreary conception , though it occupied much thought , never came to the birth . The time soon came when these tentative flights were to be superseded by more serious efforts . Pope's ambi- tion was ...
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... morality than , for example , the excellent but thoughtless Steele . For this there was the very good reason that his " little , tender , crazy carcass , " as Wycherley calls it , was utterly unfit for such excesses as his companions ...
... morality than , for example , the excellent but thoughtless Steele . For this there was the very good reason that his " little , tender , crazy carcass , " as Wycherley calls it , was utterly unfit for such excesses as his companions ...
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... moral and sati- rical poems by which he is now best known . The earlier period , with which I have now to deal , was one of experi- mental excursions into various fields of poetry , with varying success and rather uncertain aim . Pope ...
... moral and sati- rical poems by which he is now best known . The earlier period , with which I have now to deal , was one of experi- mental excursions into various fields of poetry , with varying success and rather uncertain aim . Pope ...
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... morality . We require neither Pope nor Aristotle to tell us that critics should not be pert nor prejudiced ; that fancy should be regulated by judgment ; that apparent facility comes by long training ; that the sound should have some ...
... morality . We require neither Pope nor Aristotle to tell us that critics should not be pert nor prejudiced ; that fancy should be regulated by judgment ; that apparent facility comes by long training ; that the sound should have some ...
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... moral and politi- cal reflections which would be approved by the admirers of good sense in poetry . Pope's Windsor Forest , which appeared in the be- ginning of 1713 , is closely and avowedly modelled upon this original . There is still ...
... moral and politi- cal reflections which would be approved by the admirers of good sense in poetry . Pope's Windsor Forest , which appeared in the be- ginning of 1713 , is closely and avowedly modelled upon this original . There is still ...
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