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...Johnson's "Life of Pope", contains many letters, documents; and portraits of Pope and his contemporaries; a volume containing 18 letters written by Pope to William Fortescue, between 1730 and 1739; the first edition of the four parts of "The Essay on Man," the first edition of "The Rape of the Lock", and "The Dunciad...
...cult. The members were Europeans, mostly Germans. During the Reformation they favored Lutheranism as opposed to Roman Catholicism. The "society" was popularly supposed to take its name from one Christian Rosenkreuz, who was supposed to have discovered Oriental secrets on a pilgrimage. Writers, such as Poet Pope in The Rape of the Lock and Poet Adamson in The Muses' Threnodie used Rosicrucian paraphernalia-supernatural beings, alchemic formulae, astrological signs-to embody moral teachings. The ritual of Rosicrucianism today is guarded from uninitiates. There is in the U. S. a "Rosicrucian Fellowship" whose president, a Mrs. Max Heindel of Oceanside...
Entitled "The Rape of Deianira...
Antonio Pollaiuolo's painting to be exhibited in the Fogg Museum is entitled. "The Rape of Deianira." The description of the painting in the Catalogue of the Yale Jarves Collection is as follows...
...British idiom is largely relegated to the use of the British. But the salvation of American drama was not due to efforts on the part of foreigners. Therefore one may be pardoned for publicly sympathizing with the English in their plight and privately snickering at the American rape of the tongue of the fatherland...