Template:RQ:Pope Works/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from a collection of Alexander Pope's works called The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1st edition, 1717–1735, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
If a specific quotation template is available for a particular work (for example, {{RQ:Pope Dunciad}}
), use that template in preference to this one.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|volume=
– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=I
or|volume=II
.|part=
– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from volume II, specify the name of the part quoted from as indicated in the first column of the following table:
Parameter value | Result | First page number |
---|---|---|
Donne | Satires of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s | page 41 |
Epitaphs | Epitaphs | page 1 |
Ethic Epistles 1 | Ethic Epistles to Henry St. John, L[ord] Bolingbroke | page 9 |
Ethic Epistles 2 | Ethic Epistles, the Second Book. To Several Persons. | page [40] |
Horace | Satires of Horace Imitated. […] | unnumbered page |
|2=
,|chapter=
, or|title=
; and|subchapter=
or|subtitle=
– mandatory: use|2=
,|chapter=
, or|title=
to specify the chapter name or title of the specific work quoted from, and|subchapter=
or|subtitle=
the name of a subchapter or subtitle. If the title or subtitle appears in the table below, it will be linked to an English Wikipedia article about the specific work:
Parameter value | Result | First page number |
---|---|---|
Volume I | ||
Cato Prologue | Prologue to Mr. Addison’s Tragedy of Cato (1713)
|
page 408 |
A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry | A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry | page 3 |
Dryope | The Fable of Dryope. From the Ninth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. | page 294 |
Eloisa to Abelard | Eloisa to Abelard | page 415 |
January and May | January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale, from Chaucer | page 199 |
Jervas | To Mr. Jervas, with Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, Translated by Mr. Dryden | page 390 |
Pastoral 1 or Spring | Spring. The First Pastoral. […] | |
Pastoral 2 or Summer | Summer. The Second Pastoral. […] | |
Pastoral 3 or Autumn | Autumn. The Third Pastoral. […] | |
Pastoral 4 or Winter | Winter. The Fourth Pastoral. […] | |
Rape of the Lock or The Rape of the Lock | The Rape of the Lock | |
St. Cecilia's Day | Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day | page 371 |
Thebais | The First Book of Statius His Thebais | page 301 |
Windsor Forest | Windsor-Forest. […] | |
Volume II | ||
The Author to the Reader | The Author to the Reader | unnumbered page |
The Design | The Design | unnumbered page |
Ethic Epistles to Henry St. John, L[ord] Bolingbroke | ||
Ethic Epistles, the Second Book | ||
Epistle 2.2 | Epistle II. To a Lady. | page 61 |
Epistle 2.3 | Epistle III. To Allen Lord Bathurst. (1731) | page 7 |
Epistle 2.4 | Epistle IV. To Richard Earl of Burlington. | page 39 |
Satires of Horace Imitated | ||
|subtitle=Advertisement |
Advertisement | unnumbered page |
Satires of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s | ||
Donne 2 | The Second Satire of Dr. John Donne | page 42 |
Donne 4 | The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne | page 56 |
Epistles | ||
The Dunciad | ||
|subtitle=Letter to the Publisher |
A Letter to the Publisher, Occasioned by the First Correct Edition of the Dunciad (by William Cleland) | page 3 |
|subtitle=Arguments to the Books |
Arguments to the Books | page 16 |
Dunciad or The Dunciad | The Dunciad, in Three Books, Written in the Year 1727. […] (1727)
|
page 1 |
Notes | Notes | page 205 |
- If quoting from a chapter that is unpaginated, use
|3=
or|page=
to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL ishttps://archive.org/details/worksofmralexand02pope/page/n12/mode/1up
, specify|page=12
. For help with adding links to other Wikipedia articles, leave a message on the template talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".
|book=
or|canto=
– if applicable, the book or canto number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|3=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11
. - You must also use
|pageref=
to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online versions of the work.
In volume II, the pagination is irregular; the text is unaffected:
- "Ethic Epistles, the Second Book" begins on page 47. In addition, Epistle III begins on page 1, and Epistles IV–VII begin on page 39.
- "Satires of Horace Imitated" and "Satires of Dr. John Donne" begin on page 1.
- "Epitaphs" begin on page 1.
- In "The Dunciad", the subtitles "A Letter to the Publisher" and "Arguments to the Books" begin on page 3, then the poem itself restarts on page 1.
|line=
or|lines=
– the line number(s) of the passage quoted.|4=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|footer=
– a comment about the passage quoted.|brackets=
– use|brackets=on
to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Pope Works|volume=I|title=Windsor Forest|page=62|passage=[L]ooks on heav'n vvith more than mortal eyes, / Bids his free ſoul '''expatiate''' in the skies, / Amidſt her kindred ſtars familiar roam, / Survey the region, and confeſs her home! Such vvas the life great ''Scipio'' once admir'd, / Thus ''Atticus'', and ''Trumball'' thus retir'd.}}
; or{{RQ:Pope Works|I|Windsor Forest|62|[L]ooks on heav'n vvith more than mortal eyes, / Bids his free ſoul '''expatiate''' in the skies, / Amidſt her kindred ſtars familiar roam, / Survey the region, and confeſs her home! Such vvas the life great ''Scipio'' once admir'd, / Thus ''Atticus'', and ''Trumball'' thus retir'd.}}
- Result:
- 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 62:
- [L]ooks on heav'n vvith more than mortal eyes, / Bids his free ſoul expatiate in the skies, / Amidſt her kindred ſtars familiar roam, / Survey the region, and confeſs her home! Such vvas the life great Scipio once admir'd, / Thus Atticus, and Trumball thus retir'd.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Pope Works|volume=I|title=The Rape of the Lock|canto=I|page=125|passage=VVhat guards the purity of melting Maids, / In courtly Balls and midnight '''Maſquerades''', / Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring ſpark, / The glance by day, the vvhiſper in the dark; / {{...}} / 'Tis but their ''Sylph'', the vviſe Celeſtials knovv, / Tho' ''Honour'' is the vvord vvith Men belovv.}}
- Result:
- 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 125:
- VVhat guards the purity of melting Maids, / In courtly Balls and midnight Maſquerades, / Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring ſpark, / The glance by day, the vvhiſper in the dark; / […] / 'Tis but their Sylph, the vviſe Celeſtials knovv, / Tho' Honour is the vvord vvith Men belovv.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Pope Works|volume=II|part=Ethic Epistles 2|chapter=Epistle 2.4|pages=40–41|pageref=41|lines=23–26 and 37–38|passage=You ſhovv us, Rome vvas glorious, not profuſe, / And pompous Buildings once vvere things of uſe. / yet ſhall (my Lord) your juſt, your noble Rules / Fill half the land vvith Imitating Fools: / {{...}} / Conſcious they act a true '''Palladian''' part, / And if they ſtarve, they ſtarve by the Rules of Art.|footer={{w|Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington}} (1694–1753), is noted for bringing Palladian architecture to Britain and Ireland.}}
- Result:
- 1735, Alexander Pope, “[Ethic Epistles, the Second Book. To Several Persons.] Epistle IV. To Richard Earl of Burlington.”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, pages 40–41, lines 23–26 and 37–38:
- You ſhovv us, Rome vvas glorious, not profuſe, / And pompous Buildings once vvere things of uſe. / yet ſhall (my Lord) your juſt, your noble Rules / Fill half the land vvith Imitating Fools: / […] / Conſcious they act a true Palladian part, / And if they ſtarve, they ſtarve by the Rules of Art.
See also
[edit]{{RQ:Pope Thebais}}
{{RQ:Pope Windsor Forest}}
– to quote from these works that are published in the collected work
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