Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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Page 38
... last letter , C - 1 , a poem of two cantos was written ( 1711 ) , as is faid , in a fortnight , and fent to the of fended Lady , who liked it well enough to fhew it ; and , with the ufual process of literary tranfactions , the author ...
... last letter , C - 1 , a poem of two cantos was written ( 1711 ) , as is faid , in a fortnight , and fent to the of fended Lady , who liked it well enough to fhew it ; and , with the ufual process of literary tranfactions , the author ...
Page 104
... last without any interchange of civility . The first volume of Homer was ( 1715 ) in time published ; and a rival verfior of the firft Iliad , for rivals the time of their appearance inevitably made them ,. was immediately printed ...
... last without any interchange of civility . The first volume of Homer was ( 1715 ) in time published ; and a rival verfior of the firft Iliad , for rivals the time of their appearance inevitably made them ,. was immediately printed ...
Page 114
... last long , and he feems to have waked foon enough to get clear with the lofs only of what he once thought himself to have won , and perhaps not wholly of that . Next year he published fome felect poems of his friend Next 114 POPE ...
... last long , and he feems to have waked foon enough to get clear with the lofs only of what he once thought himself to have won , and perhaps not wholly of that . Next year he published fome felect poems of his friend Next 114 POPE ...
Page 187
... last couplet has been twice corrected . It was at firft , Who would not fmile if fuch a man there be ? Who would not laugh if Addison were he ? Then , • Then ,. Who would not grieve if fuch a POP E. 187 of life, retained and discovered ...
... last couplet has been twice corrected . It was at firft , Who would not fmile if fuch a man there be ? Who would not laugh if Addison were he ? Then , • Then ,. Who would not grieve if fuch a POP E. 187 of life, retained and discovered ...
Page 196
... last century , by a man who concealed his name , but whom his Preface fhews to have been well qualified for his undertaking . This collection Pope amplified by more than half , and ( 1740 ) published it in two volumes , but injuriously ...
... last century , by a man who concealed his name , but whom his Preface fhews to have been well qualified for his undertaking . This collection Pope amplified by more than half , and ( 1740 ) published it in two volumes , but injuriously ...
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