“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 1. köideFredrick Nicolai, 1762 |
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Page xxxi
... Italy ! whofe alter'd itate Has felt the worst feverity of Fate : Not that Barbarian hands her Fafces broke , And bow'd her haughty neck beneath their yoke ; Nor that her palaces to earth are thrown , 10 '20 25 Her Cities defert , and ...
... Italy ! whofe alter'd itate Has felt the worst feverity of Fate : Not that Barbarian hands her Fafces broke , And bow'd her haughty neck beneath their yoke ; Nor that her palaces to earth are thrown , 10 '20 25 Her Cities defert , and ...
Page 8
... Italy , it cannot fo well be con- fidered as a copy of the ancients . Spenfer's Calen- dar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he ...
... Italy , it cannot fo well be con- fidered as a copy of the ancients . Spenfer's Calen- dar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he ...
Page 99
... Italian Critics , who at the reftoration of letters having found the claffic writers miferably mangled by the hands of monkish Librarians , very commendably employed their pains and talents in restoring them to their native purity . The ...
... Italian Critics , who at the reftoration of letters having found the claffic writers miferably mangled by the hands of monkish Librarians , very commendably employed their pains and talents in restoring them to their native purity . The ...
Page 109
... Italy , " and ambitious to fnath a palm from Rome , engages in an undertaking like that of Hannibal : Finely illuftrated by the fimilitude of an unexperienced traveller penetrating thro ' the Alps . NOTES . VER . 209. Pride , where Wit ...
... Italy , " and ambitious to fnath a palm from Rome , engages in an undertaking like that of Hannibal : Finely illuftrated by the fimilitude of an unexperienced traveller penetrating thro ' the Alps . NOTES . VER . 209. Pride , where Wit ...
Page 110
... Italy , The Traveller beholds with chearful eyes The lefs'ning vales and feems to tread the fkies . COMMENTARY . 230 VER . 283. A perfekt Judge , etc. ) The third caufe of wrong Judgment is a NARROW CAPACITY ; the natural and cer- tain ...
... Italy , The Traveller beholds with chearful eyes The lefs'ning vales and feems to tread the fkies . COMMENTARY . 230 VER . 283. A perfekt Judge , etc. ) The third caufe of wrong Judgment is a NARROW CAPACITY ; the natural and cer- tain ...
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