Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... perhaps from Oxford , where he was Professor of Poetry , or perhaps from Birchanger ( Essex ) , where he was Rector . Spence already aspired to be Pope's biographer , and during the week he listened attentively as Pope and he paced ...
... perhaps from Oxford , where he was Professor of Poetry , or perhaps from Birchanger ( Essex ) , where he was Rector . Spence already aspired to be Pope's biographer , and during the week he listened attentively as Pope and he paced ...
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... perhaps as well as it can be done . He made an eclectic text from the first edition of the Odes and Dodsley's Collections . The Country Justice , written at the request of Richard Burn , the historian of Westmorland , 2 and published in ...
... perhaps as well as it can be done . He made an eclectic text from the first edition of the Odes and Dodsley's Collections . The Country Justice , written at the request of Richard Burn , the historian of Westmorland , 2 and published in ...
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... perhaps thought was his legacy from Dr. Johnson , he dilated on this subject . Through the pleasant paths of Poetry [ he argued ] many young persons have been gradually led to the heights of science : they have been allured , on first ...
... perhaps thought was his legacy from Dr. Johnson , he dilated on this subject . Through the pleasant paths of Poetry [ he argued ] many young persons have been gradually led to the heights of science : they have been allured , on first ...
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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