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...Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family...

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...to Captain Lemuel Gulliver On Certain Ladies Celia Prologue (To a Play for Mr. Dennis’s Benefit) Song, by a Person of Quality Verses Left by Mr. Pope On His Grotto at Twickenham On Receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady Frances Shirley a Standish and Two Pens On Beaufort House Gate at Chiswick To Mr. Thomas Southern Epigram (“My Lord complains...”) Epigram (“Yes...

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...e made his final remark, he flung his night-cap to the foot of the bed, as Pope Gregory did the taper when he fulminated an excommunication; Suzanne t...

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...Contents SHAKSPEARE ........................................................................................................................4 POPE ................................................................................................................................... 73 CHARLES LAMB ...........................................................................

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................................................... 4 4 4 4 4 POP POP POP POP POPE E E E E ................................................................. ...asting scorn. For himself, he belonged to the age of Dryden rather than of Pope: he “flourished,” if we can use such a phrase of one who was always wi... ...to do him jus- tice, (and this we might well assume, since his great rival Pope, who had expressly studied Shakspeare, was, after all, so memorably de... ...eneral neglect? If 10 Biographical Essays so, whence came Rowe’s edition, Pope’s, Theobald’s, Sir Tho- mas Hanmer’s, Bishop Warburton’s, all upon the... ...But then Lord Shaftesbury, who may be taken as half way between Dryden and Pope, (Dryden died in 1700, Pope was then twelve years old, and Lord S. wro... ...no end. How came Betterton the actor, how came Davenant, how came Rowe, or Pope, by their intense (if not always sound) admiration for Shakspeare, unl... ...professed to have re- ceived it from him, passed it onwards to Rowe, he to Pope, Pope to Bishop Newton, the editor of Milton, and Newton to Dr. Johnso... ...um. Shakspeare was in 49 Thomas de Quincey fact the first man of letters, Pope the second, and Sir Walter Scott the third, who, in Great Britain, has... ...blished an edition in seven vols. 8vo, in 1709. Editions were published by Pope, in six vols. 4to, in 1725; by Warburton, in eight vols. 8vo, in 1747;...

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...h the gold. Have a care,” he said, laughing, “lest I use it to make myself Pope. Trust me not, but return!”’ Sir Richard paused and smiled sadly. ‘In ... ...d. “‘Write to any man that all is betrayed,” said De Aquila, “and even the Pope himself would sleep uneasily. Eh, Jehan? If one told thee all was betr...

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...phalia in 1648, was notoriously the last and the decisive conflict between Popery and Protestantism; the result of that war it was which fi- nally enl... ... a royal and a papal summons, the visit to Rome and the interview with the Pope—finally, the return to South America, and the mysterious disappearance... ...h as to require a special indulgence; and this indulgence was granted by a Pope to the interces- sion of a king—the greatest then reigning. It was a f... ...bilities which point in that direction; still, under all these advantages, Pope himself is less read, less quoted, less thought of, than the elder and... ...er section of our literature. It is a great calamity for an author such as Pope, that, generally speaking, it requires so much experience of life to e... ...easant miscellanies, half gossip, half criticism—such as Warton’s Essay on Pope, Boswell’s Johnson, Mathias’ Pursuits of Literature, and many scores b...

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...erica was peopled by men who, after having shaken off the authority of the Pope, acknowl- edged no other religious supremacy; they brought with them i...

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...32 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ers, he was asked by Mr. Jorden, to translate Pope’s Messiah into Latin verse, as a Christ- mas exercise. He performed it... ...of his Col- lege, and, indeed, of all the University. It is said, that Mr. Pope expressed himself con- cerning it in terms of strong approbation. Dr. ... ...May, 1738; and it is remarkable, that it came out on the same morning with Pope’s satire, entitled ‘1738;’ so that England had at once its Juvenal and... ...uz of the literary circles was ‘here is an unknown poet, greater even than Pope.’ And it is recorded in the Gentleman’s Magazine of that year, that it... ...support which he gave to his London, though unacquainted with its authour. Pope, who then filled the poetical throne with- out a rival, it may reasona... ... covered only that his name was Johnson, and that he was some obscure man, Pope said; ‘he will soon be deterre.’ We shall presently see, from a note w... ... ‘he will soon be deterre.’ We shall presently see, from a note written by Pope, that he was him- self afterwards more successful in his inquiries tha... ...in the literary world, it was then thought too great a favour to be asked. Pope, without any knowledge of him but from his London, recommended him to ... ...ould have attained to great eminence. 54 Boswell’s Life of Johnson As Mr. Pope’s note concerning Johnson, al- luded to in a former page, refers both ...

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...ynas- ties of their Order they are most in sympathy with, precisely as the Popes do, on their accession, in connection with pon- tifical dynasties. Th...

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...rved!” exclaimed Emile. 54 The Magic Skin “Yes,” she answered. “Just as a pope takes a new name when he is exalted above all other men, I, too, took ... ...ty snoring over there. Scum of society, give me your benediction! I am the Pope.” Raphael’s vociferations had been hitherto drowned by a thorough-bass...

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...cam- eos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinite variety of lumber. There were views, like and... ...d there was a Swiss confectioner, who must have put on caps as high as the Pope’s Mitre, and have performed the 599 Little Dorrit mysteries of Alchem...

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...cam- eos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinite variety of lumber. There were views, like and...

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...d‘s ear, and having many people hang on your every word is certainly an experience in power. But to accept a supervisory job like a bishop or pope i... ...the other great conquerors used the advancement of the state as the reason for their abnormal drive for power. Bin Laidin and some Middle Age popes ... ...e Jews had religious overtones in his otherwise secular war. Whether religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the generals and kings, the popes ... ...ions the religious power supersedes that of the elected legislators. Iran is a prime example today. And when you look back in history you see popes ... ... caught in unseemly acts, they will generally blame the police, the media or the psychological pressure of the job.. ―Even the Pope g... ...s justified the killing of over 20,000 men, women and children in the French city of Beziers on July 22, 1209 in a ‗crusade‘ authorized by the pope.‖...

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...ees, to their tempo- ral authority in the Goth and V andal government. The popes set themselves at their head, and armed with their briefs, their bull... ...e island soon followed his example; England became in- sensibly one of the Pope’s provinces, and the Holy Father used to send from time to time his le... ...ing John delivered up by a public instrument the kingdom of England to the Pope, who had excommuni- cated him; but the barons, not finding their accou... ...iged him to return to France. Whilst that the barons, the bishops, and the popes, all laid waste England, where all were for ruling the most numerous,... ...ngland I mean) than in any other country in the world. LETTER XXII.—ON MR. POPE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS POETS I INTENDED to treat of Mr. Prior, one of ... ...n which he was born. It will be much easier for you to form an idea of Mr. Pope’s 90 Letters on England works. He is, in my opinion, the most elegant... ...ple who assured me that the Duke of Marlborough was a coward, and that Mr. Pope was a fool; just as some Jesuits in France declare Pascal to have been... ...s more revered in Ireland than the Primate himself. The religion which Mr. Pope professes excludes him, indeed, from preferments of every kind, but th... ...ster hangs over the chimney of his own closet, but I have seen that of Mr. Pope in twenty noblemen’s houses. Sir Isaac Newton was revered in his life-...

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...Catholic marriages can be dissolved, if not by the temporal Courts, by the Pope. Indissoluble marriage is an academic figment, advocated only by celib...

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...s of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre—Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- sp...

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...till the first rude emanations of his ge- nius, like the nursery rhymes of Pope, could these be recov- ered, will be dear to the companions of Dick Ti...

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...ty first ran wild in woods, and was brought down (at a very long shot) by Pope? Or does the animal that is the friend of man, always degenerate in hi... ...er’s eye. He was present at that illumination of St. Peter’s, of which the Pope is known to have remarked, as he looked at it out of his window in the...

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...e-and-twenty of our 22 Catherine: A Story fellows jumped after me. By the Pope of Rome, friend Tummas, that was a day!—Had you seen how the Mounseers... ...a certain Devereux; and Mrs. Catherine maitresse en titre to Mr. Alexander Pope, Doctor Sacheverel, Sir John Reade the oculist, Dean Swift, or Marshal... ...he act of reading “Gulliver’s Travels” to Gay, Arbuthnot, Bolingbroke, and Pope. Two fellows are sitting shuddering under a doorway; to one of them To...

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...t?” asked Montefiore, uneasy at such artlessness. “But our holy father the Pope has blessed it; it was put upon my finger in childhood by a beautiful ...

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...en they were sometimes in danger of trouble on account of their zeal against popery. They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it w... ...in pleasing your hearers, or to persuade those whose concurrence you desire. Pope says, judiciously: “Men should be taught as if you taught them... ...all I could to dissuade him from it, but he continued scribbling verses till Pope cured him. He became, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 37 how... ...ion of three hundred a year; that his reputation was indeed small as a poet, Pope having damned his poetry in the Dunciad; but his prose was thought a...