“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 7
... Theocritus and Virgil ( the only undispu ted authors of Paftoral ) that the Critics have drawn the foregoing notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in nature and fimpli city . The fubjects of his Idyllia are purely ...
... Theocritus and Virgil ( the only undispu ted authors of Paftoral ) that the Critics have drawn the foregoing notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in nature and fimpli city . The fubjects of his Idyllia are purely ...
Page 9
... Theocritus himfelf ; tho , nothwith- standing all the care he has taken , he is certainly inferior in his Dialect : For the Doric hat its beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus ; it was ufed in part of Greece , and frequent in ...
... Theocritus himfelf ; tho , nothwith- standing all the care he has taken , he is certainly inferior in his Dialect : For the Doric hat its beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus ; it was ufed in part of Greece , and frequent in ...
Page 10
... Theocritus and Virgil will allow to be fit for paftoral : That they have as much variety of defeription , in refpect of the feveral feafons , as Spen- fer's ; that in order to add to this variety , the feveral times of the day are ...
... Theocritus and Virgil will allow to be fit for paftoral : That they have as much variety of defeription , in refpect of the feveral feafons , as Spen- fer's ; that in order to add to this variety , the feveral times of the day are ...
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... . In the beginnings of the other three Paftorals he imitates exprefly thofe which now ftand firft of the three chief Poets in this kind , Spencer , Virgil , Theocritus . So when the Nightingale to reft removes , The Thrush 12 PASTORALS .
... . In the beginnings of the other three Paftorals he imitates exprefly thofe which now ftand firft of the three chief Poets in this kind , Spencer , Virgil , Theocritus . So when the Nightingale to reft removes , The Thrush 12 PASTORALS .
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... Theocritus , nuper me in litore vidi , Cum placidum ventis ftaret mare ; non ego Daphnim , Judice te , metuam , fi nunquam fallat imago . VER . 40. bequeath'd in death ; etc. ) Virg . Ecl . ii . Eft mihi difparibus feptem compacta ...
... Theocritus , nuper me in litore vidi , Cum placidum ventis ftaret mare ; non ego Daphnim , Judice te , metuam , fi nunquam fallat imago . VER . 40. bequeath'd in death ; etc. ) Virg . Ecl . ii . Eft mihi difparibus feptem compacta ...
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