Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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Page 62
... example of the firm , lapidary style that one can hardly imagine the couplet is the result of much reshaping . But in the Morgan Library manuscript the Epistle begins with the comparatively feeble we ourselves Learn then Thyself , not ...
... example of the firm , lapidary style that one can hardly imagine the couplet is the result of much reshaping . But in the Morgan Library manuscript the Epistle begins with the comparatively feeble we ourselves Learn then Thyself , not ...
Page 63
... example , an early manuscript form of what was to become the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; and the manuscript runs only to about a hundred lines - less than one - fourth the final length of the poem . But Pope practised condensation as ...
... example , an early manuscript form of what was to become the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; and the manuscript runs only to about a hundred lines - less than one - fourth the final length of the poem . But Pope practised condensation as ...
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... examples ) and relatively seldom ( 13 examples ) to Boswell . A pleasing example is ( 659 ) : " Though I am going to dine with Lady Craven , I am Madam Your most humble servant . ' III . Letters in the Third Person . I am left with my ...
... examples ) and relatively seldom ( 13 examples ) to Boswell . A pleasing example is ( 659 ) : " Though I am going to dine with Lady Craven , I am Madam Your most humble servant . ' III . Letters in the Third Person . I am left with my ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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