The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceThis comprehensive work describes the history and life of Alexander Pope, including his early life and education, first published works and his flourishing into a celebrated poet and translator. The appendix also includes several letters to various persons, showing his more personal style of writing. |
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The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence Robert Carruthers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1857 |
The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence Robert Carruthers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1857 |
The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence Robert Carruthers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1857 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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Populære avsnitt
Side 485 - Cribbage, Loo, Vingt-et-un, Napoleon, Newmarket, Pope Joan, Speculation, &c., &c. BOND'S A Handy Book of Rules and Tables for verifying Dates with the Christian Era, &c. Giving an account of the Chief Eras and Systems used by various Nations ; with the easy Methods for determining the Corresponding Dates. By JJ Bond.
Side 229 - Upon this great foundation of misanthropy (though not in Timon's manner) the whole building of my travels is erected ; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion...
Side 16 - Map. 2 vols. y, 6d. each. YULE-TIDE STORIES. A Collection of Scandinavian and NorthGerman Popular Tales and Traditions, from the Swedish, Danish, and German.
Side 7 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Side 98 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Side 9 - Readings at the foot of the page, and Parallel References in the margin ; also a Critical Introduction and Chronological Tables. By an eminent Scholar, with a Greek and English Lexicon.
Side 109 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Side 487 - CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES. Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion, by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf ; and of the Crusade at St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville.
Side 181 - tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball.
Side 86 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence Bohn's illustr. libr Bohn's illustrated library Bohn's illustrated library. The works of Alexander Pope The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence, Robert Carruthers The works of Alexander Pope : Life |
| Forfatter | Robert Carruthers |
| Utgave | 2 |
| Utgiver | Bohn, 1857 |
| Original fra | Harvard University |
| Digitalisert | 21. feb 2006 |
| Lengde | 490 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |