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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 8 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 37636 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Pope 7 Mr. 5 Sir 5 London 4 William 4 University 3 man 3 Lord 3 Dunciad 3 Addison 2 english 2 Warburton 2 Swift 2 Steele 2 Man 2 Lady 2 Johnson 2 John 2 Homer 2 Essay 2 England 2 Dryden 2 Dr. 2 Cibber 2 Bolingbroke 1 year 1 work 1 time 1 thing 1 sidenote 1 reader 1 poet 1 play 1 life 1 letter 1 great 1 german 1 french 1 endnote 1 author 1 age 1 York 1 Wycherley 1 Wit 1 Walpole 1 Verse 1 Turner 1 Tickell 1 Thomson 1 Thomas Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 713 man 635 year 503 time 442 poet 419 life 380 letter 357 friend 335 work 329 poem 304 day 271 author 266 name 237 son 230 book 225 part 218 character 218 age 214 fact 207 line 203 thing 201 death 199 family 197 verse 187 sense 181 reader 181 literature 180 father 174 way 172 mind 166 power 163 person 155 writer 153 edition 152 woman 152 nothing 151 place 148 nature 146 case 143 word 142 world 140 hand 139 poetry 139 p. 138 period 138 child 137 volume 136 house 136 century 134 reason 134 daughter Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 7908 _ 1904 Pope 388 Mr. 291 Swift 275 Sir 274 Shakspeare 261 Addison 252 William 216 Lord 204 Turner 202 John 168 Cibber 159 London 144 Johnson 139 Lamb 138 York 137 Dunciad 127 Dr. 120 Thomas 116 Homer 116 Bolingbroke 113 Mrs. 112 Essay 109 Lady 108 Steele 106 Walpole 106 England 101 Man 100 M. 99 . 95 English 88 Oxford 82 Goethe 80 Warburton 80 Dryden 79 Charles 78 University 78 Curll 74 Gay 73 King 70 Queen 70 Mary 69 Milton 69 James 68 Arbuthnot 67 Dennis 66 Robert 65 Horace 64 Edward 61 Henry Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 3608 he 2593 it 1221 i 924 him 874 we 662 they 614 you 432 himself 422 them 316 me 312 she 241 us 135 her 95 itself 62 themselves 48 one 43 myself 26 ourselves 25 yourself 25 herself 21 ''em 12 thee 9 mine 8 ours 7 yours 6 his 4 thy 3 thyself 3 theirs 2 oneself 2 hers 1 ye 1 on''t 1 oft 1 nice?--i''ll 1 bouche_(to 1 ''s Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 11025 be 4031 have 737 say 708 do 654 make 529 write 460 give 377 take 363 know 326 see 325 find 273 seem 247 call 244 come 243 think 242 publish 241 appear 220 die 206 read 203 show 195 follow 183 become 182 speak 182 live 167 tell 161 leave 161 go 156 bear 136 suppose 136 receive 129 add 125 feel 124 bring 122 believe 118 lose 110 regard 110 fall 108 let 107 stand 103 hold 99 pass 98 lie 95 put 91 keep 90 use 88 turn 88 arise 87 observe 87 lead 87 allow Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1911 not 932 so 777 more 520 most 513 great 431 good 427 own 414 very 401 first 385 only 375 well 367 much 364 other 357 as 351 then 347 even 342 now 324 such 310 same 308 too 298 many 298 little 241 never 236 long 219 also 213 last 211 still 207 up 201 far 191 however 182 early 181 perhaps 178 true 178 old 174 high 164 ever 163 yet 163 once 160 out 160 always 159 here 157 young 155 indeed 153 therefore 152 thus 151 less 146 often 141 few 139 literary 126 new Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 161 good 107 least 81 most 60 great 45 high 36 early 33 bad 31 eld 21 fine 14 low 14 late 11 slight 11 noble 10 near 10 Most 9 warm 8 deep 7 young 7 strong 7 j 6 able 5 wise 5 vile 5 long 5 large 5 full 4 old 4 heavy 4 happy 4 grand 3 pure 3 lofty 3 lively 3 fair 3 bl 2 witty 2 wild 2 true 2 strange 2 small 2 simple 2 sharp 2 sane 2 ripe 2 pleasant 2 mean 2 manif 2 lovely 2 keen 2 easy Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 439 most 31 well 16 least 2 goethe 1 ¦ 1 writhe 1 shortest 1 lest 1 greatest 1 easiest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 _ was _ 5 _ had _ 5 _ is _ 5 _ is not 5 pope was not 4 _ did _ 4 _ was not 4 pope had not 3 _ are _ 3 _ were _ 3 _ were not 3 pope did not 3 pope does not 2 _ are not 2 _ do _ 2 _ has _ 2 _ have _ 2 _ is as 2 _ think _ 2 life was innocent 2 name is so 2 name was alexander 2 pope had already 2 pope had always 2 pope had now 2 pope has here 2 pope is not 2 pope took advantage 2 pope was always 2 pope was anxious 2 pope was really 2 pope was so 2 pope was then 2 swift did not 2 time was no 2 time was not 2 work is as 1 _ ''s then 1 _ appear _ 1 _ are contriv''d 1 _ are defective 1 _ are less 1 _ are scandalously 1 _ are slightly 1 _ are so 1 _ are sophistical 1 _ are usually 1 _ be _ 1 _ be apply''d 1 _ be curst Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ are not worth 1 _ had not yet 1 _ is no general 1 _ is not unfitted 1 _ was no poet 1 _ was not so 1 _ were not only 1 addison had no very 1 addison was no doubt 1 character was not selfish 1 day is not surprising 1 friends were no mere 1 letters have no tendency 1 letters were no longer 1 man had no aptitude 1 man had no demoniac 1 man is not necessarily 1 poem is not due 1 poets did not all 1 pope gave no answer 1 pope had no cause 1 pope had no grace 1 pope had no right 1 pope has no strong 1 pope is not uncommon 1 pope was not disinclined 1 pope was not likely 1 pope was not long 1 pope was not qualified 1 son was not capable 1 things are not so 1 time is not likely 1 time was no doubt 1 time was no more 1 turner did not long 1 works are not more A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 34821 author = Anonymous title = The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue date = keywords = Angeles; California; Cibber; Dulness; Dunciad; Goddess; Hervey; Los; Mr.; Pope; Scribleriad; University; William summary = from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope volley that the author of _The Scribleriad_ could fairly claim, as Pope Laureate.[3] _The Scribleriad_ follows the general run of satires against example of _The Dunciad_ and borrows many details from Pope, his poem has the Tom-Tit in the brothel story in Cibber''s _Letter to Pope_ and to mythical figure "Fame," Dulness'' handmaiden in _The New Dunciad_) who sets Pope-Cibber quarrel see R. thought this work did more harm than good to Pope''s cause, would have And strait a Form appear''d, like _ancient Fame_, } "Grant me thy Aid, great Goddess, but once more; Like _Menas_ great (tho'' with dishonest Fame) } William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California, Los id = 33441 author = Bramston, James title = The Man of Taste date = keywords = Bramston; Epistle; London; Man; Mr.; Pope; Taste; University summary = R. Leavis calls Andrew Lang "a scholar and a man of taste, with a But for the age of Pope, "taste" was a key term in its Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson that the satire on "taste" of Pope, _A Miscellany on Taste_ (1732) reprinted Pope''s _Epistle_ the title of Bramston''s poem.[4] Bramston''s _The Man of Taste_ (1733) topicality of "taste" at the time Bramston wrote his poem, and it is second edition, 1759), and Alexander Gerard''s _Essay on Taste_ (1759). There are numerous satiric portraits of the "Man of Taste": Mr. Sterling in _The Clandestine Marriage_ (1766) is a good example clearly highest proof of modern politeness."[8] Bramston''s Man of Taste is a _The Man of Taste_ (together with _The Art of Politicks_) was included 7. In his edition of Pope''s _Works_ (London, 1797), V, 285 (note on the number and order of editions of _The Man of Taste_, see The facsimile of Bramston''s _The Man of Taste_ (1733) is reproduced by id = 33080 author = Cibber, Colley title = A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope date = keywords = Cibber; Dunciad; Mr.; Pope; Sir; University; Verse; Wit; author; man; play; reader summary = in the hands of a great Genius?" Cibber asks, remarking on Pope''s acid The _Apology_''s praise of Pope did not benefit Cibber; years before the As long as Cibber was in his own territory, he could answer Pope orally, one of Cibber''s pamphlets had just come into Pope''s hands. Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_ followed the publication of this _Dunciad_, Quoth Cibber to Pope, Tho'' in Verse you foreclose, enduring fame of Pope has caused Cibber''s triumph over him to be lost [9] Cibber''s supposition that Pope wrote the _Clue to the Non-Juror_ has meaning between Cibber''s "too" and Pope''s "still", maintaining a defense of Pope as it is in attack against Cibber, but it offers no The facsimile of _A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_ (1742) is A LETTER FROM Mr. _CIBBER_, TO Mr. _POPE_, A LETTER FROM Mr. _CIBBER_, TO Mr. _POPE_, A LETTER FROM Mr. _CIBBER_, TO Mr. _POPE_, id = 6314 author = De Quincey, Thomas title = Biographical Essays date = keywords = Addison; Charles; Dr.; Dryden; England; France; Frankfort; Goethe; Greek; Homer; John; Lamb; London; Lord; Milton; Mr.; NOTE; Pope; Schiller; Shakspeare; Sir; Stratford; William; endnote; english; french; german; great; life; time; year summary = great rival Pope, who had expressly studied Shakspeare, was, after Shakspeare was in fact the first man of letters, Pope five latter years of his life Shakspeare passed in dignified ease, power to Shakspeare''s female world, is a peculiar fact of contrast but Pope''s father was a man of sense and principle; he must have public favor, in the year 1709 Pope first came forward upon the In the year 1712, Pope appeared again before the public as the twenty years after the publication of the poem, in which Pope, in a Pope''s works; a monument of satirical power the greatest which man unhappy man had visited Pope for the last time. of Pope about four years before, by a defence of the Essay on Man, that which comes from the personal friends of Pope, little natural that an intellectual man like the Sergeant, personally made id = 30421 author = Dennis, John title = The Age of Pope (1700-1744) date = keywords = Addison; Anne; Arbuthnot; Berkeley; Bolingbroke; Defoe; Dr.; England; Essay; Gay; Johnson; Lady; Law; Letters; London; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Pope; Prior; Queen; Sir; Spectator; Steele; Swift; Thomson; Warburton; William; age; english; man; poet; sidenote summary = If the _Age of Pope_ proves of help in this way the wishes of the writer life the poet had lived in the country, but Nature and Pope were not Swift, who by the aid of his powerful pen was assisting Harley and St. John to rule the country, made Pope''s acquaintance, and ultimately was heard to say at the coffee-houses that ''the best poet in England Mr. Pope a Papist'' had begun a translation of Homer which he should not was one of the warmest of Pope''s friends, and his letters to the poet English poets, and Pope''s careful workmanship often makes his satirical to _The Essay on Man_,[21] which every student of Pope will read, he In poetry Pope takes a first place in the second order of poets. ''From that time,'' says Johnson, ''Pope and Philips lived in a perpetual Unlike Pope, Swift was a man of affairs rather than of letters. id = 36544 author = Hunter, Joseph title = Pope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and Conjectures date = keywords = Edward; Elizabeth; Esq; John; Lancelot; Mr.; Poet; Pope; Sir; Thomas; Turner; William; York summary = daughter of William Turner, Esq., of York: she had three brothers, one of the children of William Turner, of York, Esq., who, by Thomasine Newton, inhabitant of this house, but it can have been but a short tenancy by Mr. Turner, whose far more proper designation was that which Pope had given son of John Pope of Wroxton, who was brother of Sir Thomas (who left no that Lancelot Turner, of the city of York, gentleman, was residing there, describes himself Lancelot Turner, of Towthorpe, in the county of York, seventeen children of William Turner, of whom Edith, the mother of Pope, William Turner, son of Philip, and nephew and principal heir of Lancelot, sheriff, Edward Turner was a married man, and the father of a family. In the year 1580, "Thomas Turner, goldsmith, son of Edward of York, as the son of Edward Turner, gentleman. id = 38275 author = Miller, James title = Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man''s Answer to Are These things So: (1740) date = keywords = London; Man; Miller; Pope; Sir; University; Walpole; thing summary = the pamphlet campaign against Robert Walpole that took place at the end Grotto," to Robert Walpole, "A Great Man at Court," set off a round of pro-Walpole poem entitled _They are Not_, was also published at about anti-Walpole poem, _The Great Man''s Answer_[11] purporting to be "by the author of _Are these things so?_." But the pro-Walpole forces were still Sir Robert Walpole and the defenders of his Whig Ministry. Great Man''s Answer_ to Miller is far more slender and rests largely on carried Pope''s name as author on the title page. _Are these things so?_ opens with Pope challenging Walpole to explain _Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of _The Lives of the Poets of Great-Britain and Ireland_, By Mr. Theophilus Cibber, and other hands (London, 1753), V, 332-334. Author of a Poem, lately publish''d, entitled ARE THESE THINGS SO? id = 19654 author = Stephen, Leslie title = Alexander Pope date = keywords = Addison; Bolingbroke; Curll; Dennis; Dryden; Dunciad; Essay; Homer; Johnson; Lady; London; Lord; Mary; Mr.; Oxford; Pope; Spence; Steele; Swift; Tickell; Warburton; Wycherley; letter; man; work summary = Four books of this poem survived for a long time, for Pope had a more had great poets--so said the "knowing Walsh," as Pope calls him--"but Pope, in fact, set to work with great vigour in his favourite published as a letter to Wycherley, it gives the impression that Pope, questionable career, some four years later, is given by Pope in a letter in earlier hands to embody true poetic feeling; but in Pope''s time it introduce Pope to its real author, the great Addison himself. Pope sent another letter or two to Steele, which look very much like a letter which, says Pope, "affected me so much that it made me like a other--the fact being that Swift had only the letters from Pope to Pope talk to you," says Bolingbroke to Swift in 1731, "of the noble work more elaborate philosophical works are in the form of letters to Pope,