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... write , and insists that a frugal life and diet becomes the poet who , intending to embrace more serious themes , seeks to write about ' wars ' , ' a heaven ruled over by a Jove who has out- grown his boyhood ' , and ' the holy counsels ...
... write , and insists that a frugal life and diet becomes the poet who , intending to embrace more serious themes , seeks to write about ' wars ' , ' a heaven ruled over by a Jove who has out- grown his boyhood ' , and ' the holy counsels ...
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... write , Such as Sir Robert would approve— ( 150-3 ) Yet this parallel between Horace's apologia and Pope's Epistle is merely incidental , for the Roman satirist also states that he will reply in kind to anyone who attacks him personally ...
... write , Such as Sir Robert would approve— ( 150-3 ) Yet this parallel between Horace's apologia and Pope's Epistle is merely incidental , for the Roman satirist also states that he will reply in kind to anyone who attacks him personally ...
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... write ' ( l . 14 ) , in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot he represents himself as willing to do all he can to avoid having fools thrust themselves upon his consciousness . The opening of the poem does not , as has been suggested ...
... write ' ( l . 14 ) , in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot he represents himself as willing to do all he can to avoid having fools thrust themselves upon his consciousness . The opening of the poem does not , as has been suggested ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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