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Page 95
... couplet about Fleet Ditch taps into a large tradition of satiric writing about polluted London waters , to which Dryden , Garth , Gay and Swift all contributed , and Wakefield noted as far back as 1796 a couplet from the Dispensary ...
... couplet about Fleet Ditch taps into a large tradition of satiric writing about polluted London waters , to which Dryden , Garth , Gay and Swift all contributed , and Wakefield noted as far back as 1796 a couplet from the Dispensary ...
Page 126
... couplet in which the poet addresses ' Blest Paper - credit ' can be seen to reflect an increasingly gloomy atti- tude to the contemporary economic situation . What starts out in the first edition as an imagined eventuality becomes a ...
... couplet in which the poet addresses ' Blest Paper - credit ' can be seen to reflect an increasingly gloomy atti- tude to the contemporary economic situation . What starts out in the first edition as an imagined eventuality becomes a ...
Page 128
... couplet is revised in keeping with the second line of the preceding couplet , ' may ' being replaced by ' can ' ; what is described is no longer a potential but a proven ability . In the 1744 ' death - bed ' edition , the lines are ...
... couplet is revised in keeping with the second line of the preceding couplet , ' may ' being replaced by ' can ' ; what is described is no longer a potential but a proven ability . In the 1744 ' death - bed ' edition , the lines are ...
Contents
Pope and Slavery | 27 |
The Shadow of Friendship | 55 |
Popes Epic Idiom Revisited | 69 |
Copyright | |
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