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Page 118
... follow the Essay on Man - that he himself has taken centre stage . Much more than embodying philosophical precepts , aphorisms or maxims , the ' Epistles to Several Persons ' - above all when read as a group of seven or eleven poems ...
... follow the Essay on Man - that he himself has taken centre stage . Much more than embodying philosophical precepts , aphorisms or maxims , the ' Epistles to Several Persons ' - above all when read as a group of seven or eleven poems ...
Page 123
... follows the description of Sabinus with the passage in which ' laughing Ceres ' re - assumes the land : it also immediately follows the " Timon ' episode with the couplet , In you , my Lord , Taste sanctifies Expence , For Splendor ...
... follows the description of Sabinus with the passage in which ' laughing Ceres ' re - assumes the land : it also immediately follows the " Timon ' episode with the couplet , In you , my Lord , Taste sanctifies Expence , For Splendor ...
Page 128
... follow . In the second draft the following couplet is interpolated to follow the first mention of paper - credit : Whose Leaves like Sybils , pregnant with our fates Bears Fates of Men and Empires to or fro.41 In the margin the couplet ...
... follow . In the second draft the following couplet is interpolated to follow the first mention of paper - credit : Whose Leaves like Sybils , pregnant with our fates Bears Fates of Men and Empires to or fro.41 In the margin the couplet ...
Contents
Pope and Slavery | 27 |
The Shadow of Friendship | 55 |
Popes Epic Idiom Revisited | 69 |
Copyright | |
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