The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 5. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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Page xxvi
... Virgil of the most perfect Epic per- " formance . And thofe 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 difadvantage to that immortal ...
... Virgil of the most perfect Epic per- " formance . And thofe 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 difadvantage to that immortal ...
Page xxxvi
... Virgil than in any other " work , except this of our author only t . " The Author of a Letter to Mr. CIBBER CC V fays , Pope was fo good a verfifier [ once ] that his predeceffor Mr. Dryden , and his cotemporary Mr. " Prior excepted ...
... Virgil than in any other " work , except this of our author only t . " The Author of a Letter to Mr. CIBBER CC V fays , Pope was fo good a verfifier [ once ] that his predeceffor Mr. Dryden , and his cotemporary Mr. " Prior excepted ...
Page xlvii
... forty . For , at that season it was that Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore at i Cibber's Letter to Mr. P. pag . 9 , 12 , 41 . the like age compofing his Arthurs , declared the fame OF THE POEM . xlvii.
... forty . For , at that season it was that Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore at i Cibber's Letter to Mr. P. pag . 9 , 12 , 41 . the like age compofing his Arthurs , declared the fame OF THE POEM . xlvii.
Page xlix
... Virgil , like modern Undertakers , who first build their house , and then feek out for a tenant , had contrived the story of a War and a Wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or Æneas . We fhall therefore fet our good ...
... Virgil , like modern Undertakers , who first build their house , and then feek out for a tenant , had contrived the story of a War and a Wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or Æneas . We fhall therefore fet our good ...
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... Virgil , and Milton , together with this our poem , as a complete Tetralogy , in which the laft worthily holdeth the place or station 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 laft worthily holdeth the place or station of the fatiric piece ? Proceed we therefore in our fubject . It hath been long , and , alas for pity ...
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