Template:RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism
1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Alexander Pope's work An Essay on Criticism (1st edition, 1711). It may be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last pages 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 pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|line=
or|lines=
– the line number(s) of the passage quoted. If quoting from a range of numbers, separate the numbers with an en dash, like this:|lines=10–11
.|2=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|footer=
– a comment on 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 Essay on Criticism|page=12|passage=Some figures ''monſtrous'' and ''miſ-ſhap'd'' appear, / Conſider'd ''ſingly'', or beheld too ''near'', / VVhich, but ''proportion'd'' to their ''Light'', or ''Place'', / Due '''Diſtance''' ''reconciles'' to Form and Grace.}}
; or{{RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism|12|Some figures ''monſtrous'' and ''miſ-ſhap'd'' appear, / Conſider'd ''ſingly'', or beheld too ''near'', / VVhich, but ''proportion'd'' to their ''Light'', or ''Place'', / Due '''Diſtance''' ''reconciles'' to Form and Grace.}}
- Result:
- 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, page 12:
- Some figures monſtrous and miſ-ſhap'd appear, / Conſider'd ſingly, or beheld too near, / VVhich, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, / Due Diſtance reconciles to Form and Grace.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism|pages=22–23|pageref=23|passage=When ''[[w:Ajax the Great|Ajax]]'' ſtrives, ſome Rock's vaſt Weight to throw, / The Line too ''labours'', and the Words move ''ſlow''; / Not ſo, when ſwift ''[[w:Camilla (mythology)|Camilla]]'' '''ſcours''' the plain, / Flies o'er th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main.}}
- Result:
- 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:
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