The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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... Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses , half up and half down , There has been such a doling and sameness by Jove , I'd as soon have gone down to see Kemble in love . ( 3 ) However , of late as they've rous'd ...
... Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses , half up and half down , There has been such a doling and sameness by Jove , I'd as soon have gone down to see Kemble in love . ( 3 ) However , of late as they've rous'd ...
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... Pope , Prior , and others , are among the candidates , he thus mo- destly introduces himself : — When Buckingham came , he scarce car'd to be seen , Till Phoebus desir'd his old friend to walk in : But a laureat peer had never been ...
... Pope , Prior , and others , are among the candidates , he thus mo- destly introduces himself : — When Buckingham came , he scarce car'd to be seen , Till Phoebus desir'd his old friend to walk in : But a laureat peer had never been ...
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... Pope , Swift , and others , who affected to be conscientious rhymers ; and , in fact , there was nothing in it to startle them ; for it appears by Johnson's Dic- tionary , that as late as fifty years back , the l in fault was not only ...
... Pope , Swift , and others , who affected to be conscientious rhymers ; and , in fact , there was nothing in it to startle them ; for it appears by Johnson's Dic- tionary , that as late as fifty years back , the l in fault was not only ...
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... Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new ; but his succes- sors have found the style of too easy and ac ...
... Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new ; but his succes- sors have found the style of too easy and ac ...
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... Pope as no poet at all . He is , I confess , in my judgment , at a good distance from Dryden , and at an ... Pope's versification " by principles rather than percep- tion , " treating the accusation against him as a cant , and suspecting ...
... Pope as no poet at all . He is , I confess , in my judgment , at a good distance from Dryden , and at an ... Pope's versification " by principles rather than percep- tion , " treating the accusation against him as a cant , and suspecting ...
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