Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly ...
... hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly ...
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... hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own fkill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable ap-- pearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern Englifh . He tranflated : likewife the ...
... hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own fkill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable ap-- pearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern Englifh . He tranflated : likewife the ...
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... hands for correction . Their correfpondence afforded the publick its firft knowledge of Pope's Epiftolary Powers ; for his Letters were given by Cromwel to one Mrs. Thomas , and the many years afterwards fold them to Curll , who ...
... hands for correction . Their correfpondence afforded the publick its firft knowledge of Pope's Epiftolary Powers ; for his Letters were given by Cromwel to one Mrs. Thomas , and the many years afterwards fold them to Curll , who ...
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... hand to colour and embellish it . His attempt was juftified by its fuc- cefs . The Rape of the Lock ftands for- ward , in the claffes of literature , as the moft exquifite example of ludicrous poetry . Berkley congratulated him upon the ...
... hand to colour and embellish it . His attempt was juftified by its fuc- cefs . The Rape of the Lock ftands for- ward , in the claffes of literature , as the moft exquifite example of ludicrous poetry . Berkley congratulated him upon the ...
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... were believed to have been the performance of Pope himself by Fenton , who made him a gay offer of five pounds , if he would fhew them in the hand of Betterton . D The The next year ( 1713 ) produced a bolder attempt POPE . 49.
... were believed to have been the performance of Pope himself by Fenton , who made him a gay offer of five pounds , if he would fhew them in the hand of Betterton . D The The next year ( 1713 ) produced a bolder attempt POPE . 49.
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