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... Pope's contemporary John Dennis which Johnson reports as follows in his Life of Pope : It is remarked by Dennis likewise that the machinery is superfluous ; that by all the bustle of preternatural operation the main event is neither ...
... Pope's contemporary John Dennis which Johnson reports as follows in his Life of Pope : It is remarked by Dennis likewise that the machinery is superfluous ; that by all the bustle of preternatural operation the main event is neither ...
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... Pope's Messiah , 49ff .: ' . . . the good shepherd ... Explores the lost , the wand'ring sheep directs ' . According to this gloss Pope's couplet must mean : ' What hitherto unknown or undiscovered cause .. But the meaning of ' unex ...
... Pope's Messiah , 49ff .: ' . . . the good shepherd ... Explores the lost , the wand'ring sheep directs ' . According to this gloss Pope's couplet must mean : ' What hitherto unknown or undiscovered cause .. But the meaning of ' unex ...
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... Pope , in annotating many years later his copy of Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1728 ) , countered Dennis's charge that the poem lacked an obvious moral by writing in the margin ' Clarissas Speach ' , this cannot be taken as ...
... Pope , in annotating many years later his copy of Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1728 ) , countered Dennis's charge that the poem lacked an obvious moral by writing in the margin ' Clarissas Speach ' , this cannot be taken as ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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