Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… imitations of Horace as ‘ To virtue only and her friends , a friend ’, not only does Pope demonstrate the self-serving nature of his sociable ethos, applying to himself a line that Horace had used about a separate figure, but he also … of Horace (London: A. Dodd, 1733), p. 5. These lines epitomise Pope’s propensity to ignite broader debates about the nature of politeness and the value of sociability at this time. He offers a double provocation to Wortley Montagu and …
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