Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... whole'- ' Tis not a lip , or eye , we beauty call , But the joint force and full result of all . Pedantry may be permitted to remark , however , after examin- ing Pope's manuscripts , that he composed by fragmentary para- graphs fully ...
... whole'- ' Tis not a lip , or eye , we beauty call , But the joint force and full result of all . Pedantry may be permitted to remark , however , after examin- ing Pope's manuscripts , that he composed by fragmentary para- graphs fully ...
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... whole of what he is to convey , appertaining to any one point ; and by this means so to subordinate and arrange the different parts according to their relative importance , as to convey it at once , and as an organised whole.1 Still ...
... whole of what he is to convey , appertaining to any one point ; and by this means so to subordinate and arrange the different parts according to their relative importance , as to convey it at once , and as an organised whole.1 Still ...
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... whole of Addison's Cato and , what is more surprising , the whole of Edmund Smith's Phaedra and Hippolitus - surprising , if it signi- fies that the public still called for it , and also because Dr. Johnson thought that they did not and ...
... whole of Addison's Cato and , what is more surprising , the whole of Edmund Smith's Phaedra and Hippolitus - surprising , if it signi- fies that the public still called for it , and also because Dr. Johnson thought that they did not and ...
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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