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Page 95
... true . In identifying poetry's subject as that which has often been thought , the poet assures the reader that they will be meeting on this common ground . It remains to be seen how far , and in what sense , Pope was able to abide by ...
... true . In identifying poetry's subject as that which has often been thought , the poet assures the reader that they will be meeting on this common ground . It remains to be seen how far , and in what sense , Pope was able to abide by ...
Page 133
... true perspective being given to events ; there are other perspectives with equal claims to truth . The diminishing perspective is true in the sense that it agrees with Pope's purpose of laughing the parties together — which is ...
... true perspective being given to events ; there are other perspectives with equal claims to truth . The diminishing perspective is true in the sense that it agrees with Pope's purpose of laughing the parties together — which is ...
Page 215
... true that the particular bodies to which Pope related " fortitude " are inseparable from lives which deny the appropriateness of the idea ; but it is nevertheless through those bodies that the idea of fortitude becomes momentarily ...
... true that the particular bodies to which Pope related " fortitude " are inseparable from lives which deny the appropriateness of the idea ; but it is nevertheless through those bodies that the idea of fortitude becomes momentarily ...
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