Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 3C. Whittingham, 1805 - English literature |
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Page 74
... lady and family in July , 1752 ; but , so delusive , so fragile , are the schemes of human comfort , that only a few months elapsed ere this great , this excellent man was summoned to ano- ther world . He expired on Sunday evening ...
... lady and family in July , 1752 ; but , so delusive , so fragile , are the schemes of human comfort , that only a few months elapsed ere this great , this excellent man was summoned to ano- ther world . He expired on Sunday evening ...
Page 77
... ladies , and states- men ; a paper of a humorous and satirical ten- dency . N ° 49 is an essay of considerable merit on Pleasures natural and fantastical , a subject of the first importance ; as a taste for unsophisticated , for cheap ...
... ladies , and states- men ; a paper of a humorous and satirical ten- dency . N ° 49 is an essay of considerable merit on Pleasures natural and fantastical , a subject of the first importance ; as a taste for unsophisticated , for cheap ...
Page 86
... Lady , by many degrees the most pathetic of his composi- tions . With every reader its effects will pro- bably be increased when he is informed that the lady , whose name was Withinbury , was actually in love with Pope , and wished to ...
... Lady , by many degrees the most pathetic of his composi- tions . With every reader its effects will pro- bably be increased when he is informed that the lady , whose name was Withinbury , was actually in love with Pope , and wished to ...
Page 90
... lady into a nunnery , whose death he had commemo- rated in his elegy ; and that the last four couplets allude to his own situation and feelings . What- ever may have been the associations which gave origin to this epistle , it is ...
... lady into a nunnery , whose death he had commemo- rated in his elegy ; and that the last four couplets allude to his own situation and feelings . What- ever may have been the associations which gave origin to this epistle , it is ...
Page 99
... Lady , and first published in 1735 . Before these received their completion , how- ever , by the appearance of the last - mentioned Epistle , Pope had introduced to the world , and finished , his Essay on Man ; the first and second ...
... Lady , and first published in 1735 . Before these received their completion , how- ever , by the appearance of the last - mentioned Epistle , Pope had introduced to the world , and finished , his Essay on Man ; the first and second ...
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