item: #1 of 8
          id: 19654
      author: Stephen, Leslie
       title: Alexander Pope
        date: None
       words: 65723
      flesch: 65
     summary: He finally instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope, a Papist, who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe; 'for,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him!' Bentley's phrase--a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer--expresses the uniform view taken from the first by all who could read both.
    keywords: addison; author; bolingbroke; book; character; characteristic; correspondence; curll; day; death; dennis; dunciad; edition; english; essay; fact; feeling; form; friends; good; homer; johnson; kind; lady; letters; life; lines; literature; lord; man; men; nature; new; original; passages; period; place; poem; poet; poetry; pope; publication; satire; sense; story; style; swift; thought; time; verses; volume; warburton; way; wit; work; world; writing; wycherley; years
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 30421
      author: Dennis, John
       title: The Age of Pope (1700-1744)
        date: None
       words: 82519
      flesch: 72
     summary: [56] These _Letters_ were not published until after the earl's death, but many of them belong, chronologically, to our period. _
    keywords: addison; age; art; author; berkeley; bishop; bolingbroke; book; born; century; character; country; day; death; defoe; edition; england; english; essay; friend; gay; genius; good; history; house; john; johnson; king; lady; language; law; letters; life; like; lines; literature; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; moral; nature; period; place; poem; poet; poetry; pope; power; praise; prior; queen; reader; sense; sir; state; steele; style; swift; things; thomson; thought; time; verse; way; william; women; work; world; writer; years; young
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 33080
      author: Cibber, Colley
       title: A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
        date: None
       words: 18306
      flesch: 78
     summary: Pope_ intended them as a Compliment to _ Pope_ laments the Decay of Poetry; though the Impoliteness of the Piece is his only insinuated Objection against it.
    keywords: author; cibber; colley; dunciad; good; great; ill; juror; letter; line; lord; man; new; non; play; pope; sir; stage; time; university; verse; wit; world; years
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 33441
      author: Bramston, James
       title: The Man of Taste
        date: None
       words: 6558
      flesch: 80
     summary: As _Pasaran_ directs I'd end my life, And kill myself, my daughter, and my wife. To _Greek_ or _Latin Tongues_ without pretence, I trust to mother Wit, and father Sense. _
    keywords: addison; art; bramston; california; edition; english; epistle; library; london; los; man; men; poem; pope; sir; taste; university; william
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 34821
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
        date: None
       words: 10282
      flesch: 79
     summary: Who o'er thy Suns spread'st such a thick'ning Veil, That Sense of Pain, as well as Shame, is lost, And you _reward_ those best, who _blunder_ most; For where are Honours, Places, Gifts bestow'd, But where thy Influence is most avow'd? Rest, while more modern Miracles I sing, Of _Minor Dunces_ that from thee first spring; But all who Recreants thy Pow'r disclaim, And, Laureat-like, to _Pertness_ change thy Name; And ye, her Sons, who've nothing else to do, Wait, if you please, the----Vision thro': You, who in Manuscript your Works retale, And tag with Rhimes the latter Ends of Ale, But vow th' ungrateful Age shall never see, But if that Lord the _Pen_ or _Press_ invade, Rouse, rouse, ye Tribe!
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 36544
      author: Hunter, Joseph
       title: Pope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and Conjectures
        date: None
       words: 25590
      flesch: 64
     summary: To my funeral expenses, £80; to Mr. William Turner, my godson, £20; and to William Turner, his son, my godson, £10; to Mrs. Turner, his wife, £5, and to the rest of his children £5, to be divided amongst them. Martha, daughter of Mr. William Turner. 1642, June 18.
    keywords: brother; children; church; daughter; death; edward; edward turner; elizabeth; esq; family; father; john; lancelot; lancelot turner; life; lord; mother; mrs; persons; poet; pope; sir; son; thomas; time; towthorpe; turner; wife; william; william turner; year; york
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 38275
      author: Miller, James
       title: Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)
        date: None
       words: 11138
      flesch: 83
     summary: Whilst _Commerce_ flies before th' oppressive Weight, And seeks in _Gaul_ a more indulgent Fate; Where, Shame to _Britain_! Commerce_ laid, But for th' Increase of _our_ Revenues made?
    keywords: answer; author; country; day; december; e. m.; edition; g. m.; london; man; miller; november; poem; pope; sir; state; things; university; walpole; william
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 6314
      author: De Quincey, Thomas
       title: Biographical Essays
        date: None
       words: 80971
      flesch: 57
     summary: Pope certainly speaks of her under the name of Mrs. (_i. e._ Miss) W--, which at least argues a poetical exaggeration in describing her as a being that once had _titles_, honor, wealth, and fame; and he may as much have exaggerated her pretensions to beauty. Stratford are clear enough; but what motives determined his course _to_ London, and especially to the stage, still remains to be explained.
    keywords: account; age; author; birth; case; century; character; charles; circumstances; day; days; death; effect; endnote; english; fact; family; father; french; friend; german; goethe; good; great; greek; hand; house; intellectual; interest; john; lamb; life; literature; little; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; note; notice; original; people; period; person; place; poet; point; pope; power; public; question; rank; reader; reason; schiller; sense; shakspeare; sir; stage; stratford; subject; thought; time; value; viz; way; woman; works; world; years
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