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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, Etc In the year 1688, on the second day of the month of May, here was born in Lombard Street, London, a child who was destined, very early in his life, to polish the English language to the highest pitch; and to give utterance in eloquent words, many of which have become proverbial, to the peculiar common sense and thought of his country. That child was Alexander Pope; a tender, beautiful infant, but delicate, ailing, and slightly deformed by excessive weakness; of sweet and gentle disposition; and with a voice so melodious that he was called in fondness "The little nightingale." His father was (he says himself) of a good family, and had made about twenty thousand pounds in trade - a very considerable sum in those days; his mother, Editha Pope, was one of the Yorkshire Turners. Alexander was taught reading by an aunt; and at seven or eight years of age became passionately fond of it. He learned to write by imitating printed books, which he did with great skill. The parents of Pope were Roman Catholics; he was consequently placed with a Catholic priest, who resided in Hampshire, for education. The child was then eight years of age. Mr. Taverner, his tutor, appears to have been worthy of his pupil. By a method very rarely practised, he taught the little lad Greek and Latin at the same time. He also taught the child to love the classics by letting him read Ogilby's Homer, and Sandys's translation of Ovid in English. Ogilby does not seem to have impressed him favourably, though of course he was indebted to him for his first knowledge of the immortal tale of Troy; but of Sandys he declares in his notes to the Iliad "that English poetry owes much of its beauty to his translations." His poem of "Sandys's Ghost" (p. 383) shows how long he treasured his boyish predilection for this translation. Under the care of Mr. Taverner the young poet made great and rapid progress. He w.

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