Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... give us the measure , if not of the man , yet of the work ; just as the limpidity of their style , conveying a distinction of almost scholas- tic precision in such manner that even a ' tea - table ' could not fail to understand it , gives ...
... give us the measure , if not of the man , yet of the work ; just as the limpidity of their style , conveying a distinction of almost scholas- tic precision in such manner that even a ' tea - table ' could not fail to understand it , gives ...
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... give only this sample : I would now offer some poor Thoughts of mine for the En- couragement of Poetry in this Kingdom , if I could hope they would be agreeable . I have had many an aking Heart for the ill plight of that noble ...
... give only this sample : I would now offer some poor Thoughts of mine for the En- couragement of Poetry in this Kingdom , if I could hope they would be agreeable . I have had many an aking Heart for the ill plight of that noble ...
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... give to Fame what we to Nature owe ; Brave tho ' we fall , and honour'd if we live , Or let us Glory gain , or Glory give ! 1 Homer burlesqued follows : Say , why are Beauties prais'd and honour'd most , The wise Man's Passion , and the ...
... give to Fame what we to Nature owe ; Brave tho ' we fall , and honour'd if we live , Or let us Glory gain , or Glory give ! 1 Homer burlesqued follows : Say , why are Beauties prais'd and honour'd most , The wise Man's Passion , and the ...
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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