The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, 3. köideC. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... remarkable . The same writer never presumed to undertake more than one kind of dramatic poetry , if we except the Cyclops of Euripides . A poet never presumed to plead in public , or to write history , or indeed any considerable work in ...
... remarkable . The same writer never presumed to undertake more than one kind of dramatic poetry , if we except the Cyclops of Euripides . A poet never presumed to plead in public , or to write history , or indeed any considerable work in ...
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... remarkable . The question is of the means to subdue Pride : he directs the Critic to begin with a distrust of himself ; and this is Modesty , the first mortification of Pride : and then to seek the assistance of others , and make use ...
... remarkable . The question is of the means to subdue Pride : he directs the Critic to begin with a distrust of himself ; and this is Modesty , the first mortification of Pride : and then to seek the assistance of others , and make use ...
Page 99
... remarkable . The poets , and even some of the best of them , have been so fond of the beauty arising from this trivial observance , that their practice has violated the very END of the precept , which is the increase of harmony ; and so ...
... remarkable . The poets , and even some of the best of them , have been so fond of the beauty arising from this trivial observance , that their practice has violated the very END of the precept , which is the increase of harmony ; and so ...
Page 107
... remarkable example ; where we see Time , instead of becoming wiser , destroying good letters , to substitute school divinity in their place - The genius of which kind of learning ; the character of its professors ; and the fate , which ...
... remarkable example ; where we see Time , instead of becoming wiser , destroying good letters , to substitute school divinity in their place - The genius of which kind of learning ; the character of its professors ; and the fate , which ...
Page 143
... remarkable , that most of the great poets , about this time , wrote an Art of Poetry . Trissino , a name respected for giv- ing to Europe the first regular epic poem , and for first daring to throw off the bondage of rhyme , published ...
... remarkable , that most of the great poets , about this time , wrote an Art of Poetry . Trissino , a name respected for giv- ing to Europe the first regular epic poem , and for first daring to throw off the bondage of rhyme , published ...
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