Items related to THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, VOL. IV.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 Excerpt: ...v. J40. In the former edit. The page admires new beauties not its own. J Miraturque novas frondes et non sua poma." J. Vhrg% Georg. lI. But, high above, more solid learning shone, The Classics of an age that heard of none; There Caxton slept, with Wynkyn at his side, Oneclasp'd in wood, and one in strong cow-hide; 150 There, sav'd by spice, like mummies, many a year, Dry bodies of divinity appear: De Lyra there a dreadfull front extends, And here the groaning shelves Philemon bends REMARKS..dressed In a sort of. beggar's velvet, or a happy mixture of the thick fustian and thin prosaic $ exactly imitated in Parolla and Isidora, Csesar in Egypt, and the Heroic Daughter. 3. Broome was a serving.man of Ben Johnson, who once picked up a comedy from his betters, or from some.cast scenes of his masters, not entirely contemptible. v. 149. Gorton. A printer in the time of Edward IV. Richard III. ind Henry VII. Wynkyn deWord, his successor, in that.of Henry VII. andVIII. v. 153. Nich. de Lyra; or Harpsfield, a very voluminous commentator, whose works, in five vast folios, were printed in 1472. v. 154. Philemon Holland, doctor in physic. " He translated so many books, tint a man would think he "had done nothing else: insomuch that he might be cal" led Translator-General of his age. The books alone of his turning into English, are sufficient to make a countc try gentleman a compleat library Wimtanley. VARIATIONS. v. 146. In the first edit. it was Well purgM, and worthy W--y, W s and Bl. And in the following altered to Wythers, Quarles, and "Bloome, on which was the following note! It was printed in the surreptitious editions, W--ly, W--s, who were persons eminent for good life; the one "writ the Life of Christ in verse, the other some valu...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130654443
- ISBN 13 9781130654448
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages56
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