Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... later than 1730 , he told Spence , ' I wrote the Essay on Criticism fast ; for I had digested all the matter , in prose , before I began upon it in verse . ' Again , he spoke to Spence of ' my Brutus , which is all planned already ; and ...
... later than 1730 , he told Spence , ' I wrote the Essay on Criticism fast ; for I had digested all the matter , in prose , before I began upon it in verse . ' Again , he spoke to Spence of ' my Brutus , which is all planned already ; and ...
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... later works is therefore essential , ' a necessary evil ' as Dr. Johnson said of commentaries on Shakespeare , something to be cast aside and ignored when the reader starts a later reading of the poem . Pope was quite well aware of the ...
... later works is therefore essential , ' a necessary evil ' as Dr. Johnson said of commentaries on Shakespeare , something to be cast aside and ignored when the reader starts a later reading of the poem . Pope was quite well aware of the ...
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... later decades of the eighteenth century there is a falling off in English prose : John- son , Gibbon , Burke would alone be enough to disprove that . What I do suggest is that the Harwoods were writing better in the days of Addison than ...
... later decades of the eighteenth century there is a falling off in English prose : John- son , Gibbon , Burke would alone be enough to disprove that . What I do suggest is that the Harwoods were writing better in the days of Addison than ...
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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