The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... Virgil of the " most perfect epic performance . And those parts " of Homer which have been published already by " Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad " will appear in English with as little disadvantage to that immortal ...
... Virgil of the " most perfect epic performance . And those parts " of Homer which have been published already by " Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad " will appear in English with as little disadvantage to that immortal ...
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... Virgil than in any " other work , except this of our author only ( 1 ) . " ( r ) A list of persons , etc. at the end of the forementioned Col- lection of all the Letters , Essays , etc. ( s ) Introduction to his Shakespear restored , in ...
... Virgil than in any " other work , except this of our author only ( 1 ) . " ( r ) A list of persons , etc. at the end of the forementioned Col- lection of all the Letters , Essays , etc. ( s ) Introduction to his Shakespear restored , in ...
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... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Black . more at the like age composing his Arthurs , declared the fame to be the very acme and pitch of life for Epic poefy ; though fince he hath altered it to fixty , the year in which he ...
... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Black . more at the like age composing his Arthurs , declared the fame to be the very acme and pitch of life for Epic poefy ; though fince he hath altered it to fixty , the year in which he ...
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... Virgil , like moderu undertakers , who frit build their house , and then seek out for a tenant , had con- trived the story of a war and a wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or ¯neas . We shall therefore fet our good ...
... Virgil , like moderu undertakers , who frit build their house , and then seek out for a tenant , had con- trived the story of a war and a wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or ¯neas . We shall therefore fet our good ...
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... Virgil , and Milton , together with this our poem , as a complete tetralogy , in which the last worthily holdeth the place or sta- tion of the fatiric piece ? Proceed we therefore in our fubject . It hath been long , and , alas for pity ...
... Virgil , and Milton , together with this our poem , as a complete tetralogy , in which the last worthily holdeth the place or sta- tion of the fatiric piece ? Proceed we therefore in our fubject . It hath been long , and , alas for pity ...
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