The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 sider |
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... leaving behind him one only daughter , named Elizabeth , who was married to Henry Francis Lee , of Dichley , in Oxfordshire , and afterwards to Robert , Earl of Lindsey . The earldom of Downe went to Thomas Pope , Esq . , his uncle ...
... leaving behind him one only daughter , named Elizabeth , who was married to Henry Francis Lee , of Dichley , in Oxfordshire , and afterwards to Robert , Earl of Lindsey . The earldom of Downe went to Thomas Pope , Esq . , his uncle ...
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... leaves small legacies to her sisters , Elizabeth Turner , Alice Mawhood , Mary Turner ; also to her sister Marc , and her sister Jane Smith ; and to her sister Pope is this bequest : " My necklace of pearl and a grinding - stone and ...
... leaves small legacies to her sisters , Elizabeth Turner , Alice Mawhood , Mary Turner ; also to her sister Marc , and her sister Jane Smith ; and to her sister Pope is this bequest : " My necklace of pearl and a grinding - stone and ...
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... leaving school he was only able , he says , to construe a little of Tully's Offices . He was better acquainted with Dryden than with Cicero , and his boyish admiration and curiosity led him to obtain a sight of the living poet . He ...
... leaving school he was only able , he says , to construe a little of Tully's Offices . He was better acquainted with Dryden than with Cicero , and his boyish admiration and curiosity led him to obtain a sight of the living poet . He ...
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... leave , among my curiosities . " This was six years before Atterbury went abroad . There is no evidence of Walsh having corrected the Statius ; Cromwell was the party , though Walsh corrected the Pastorals . Spence also makes Pope say ...
... leave , among my curiosities . " This was six years before Atterbury went abroad . There is no evidence of Walsh having corrected the Statius ; Cromwell was the party , though Walsh corrected the Pastorals . Spence also makes Pope say ...
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... Leaving loved Cyprus , did to Bath resort . Think not , Adonis , to avoid her love , For Venus has as many shapes as Jove : At church she takes a FoWLER's face to charm ; Or walks , salutes in WENTWORTH's graceful form ; Her shape is ...
... Leaving loved Cyprus , did to Bath resort . Think not , Adonis , to avoid her love , For Venus has as many shapes as Jove : At church she takes a FoWLER's face to charm ; Or walks , salutes in WENTWORTH's graceful form ; Her shape is ...
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The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence Robert Carruthers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1857 |
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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.