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... earlier version the juxtaposition of speeches had created the impression of a young heroine more under the influence of her female companion , in the revised Rape Belinda appears as a heroine who has clearly come of age . This ...
... earlier version the juxtaposition of speeches had created the impression of a young heroine more under the influence of her female companion , in the revised Rape Belinda appears as a heroine who has clearly come of age . This ...
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... earlier charge seem to have been un- just . As Maid of Honour to Queen Caroline , she was supposed to have tried to poison another maid of honour ; while according to Hervey himself , she was ' very dangerous ' , possessed of ' a lying ...
... earlier charge seem to have been un- just . As Maid of Honour to Queen Caroline , she was supposed to have tried to poison another maid of honour ; while according to Hervey himself , she was ' very dangerous ' , possessed of ' a lying ...
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... earlier , in a letter to William Pulteney , a leading opponent of Walpole , Swift had , with characteristic brevity , be- queathed to his friend ' an epitaph for forty years hence , in two words , Ultimus Britannorum ' ( ' the last of ...
... earlier , in a letter to William Pulteney , a leading opponent of Walpole , Swift had , with characteristic brevity , be- queathed to his friend ' an epitaph for forty years hence , in two words , Ultimus Britannorum ' ( ' the last of ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
Copyright | |
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Aeneas Alexander Pope allusion appears Arabella Arbuthnot arguably Baron beauty Belinda Briton Bufo canto card-game character Christian companion poems contemporary context contrast coquette corruption couplet critics described Dido divine Dr Johnson dramatic dream Dryden earlier earthly lover echo English Epistle to Dr Essays example five-canto version grief heroine honour ibid Il Penseroso imagery implied inspiration interpretation introductory stanza John Milton Juvenal Juvenal's kind L'Allegro later lines literary Lock London Lycidas's Melancholy Milton's Lycidas moral Moreover motif Muses Nymph Orgilio Orpheus pagan Paradise Lost pastoral world Penseroso perhaps Phoebus poem's poet poet-speaker poetry Pope's portrait pride Rape reader reading reference regarded represented resurrection Samuel Johnson Sarpedon satire satirist seems sense significance Sporus St Peter suggest swain sylphs symbolic Thales Thalestris theme thou tion tradition Tuve Twickenham Twickenham editor two-handed engine Types of Lycidas Umbriel Verres verse verse-paragraph Walpole Walpole's woeful shepherds Wolsey words