An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... speak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his model Boileau , for whom it was originally defigned . " INCAPABLE PEUTETRE DU SUBLIME ...
... speak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his model Boileau , for whom it was originally defigned . " INCAPABLE PEUTETRE DU SUBLIME ...
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... is certainly a just one , may it not be asked , why he should speak , the scene lying in WindforIdyll . i . ver . 1. + Paft . iv . ver . 1 . Past . ii . Foreft , Foreft , of the SULTRY SIRIUS , * of the AND GENIUS OF POPE . 5.
... is certainly a just one , may it not be asked , why he should speak , the scene lying in WindforIdyll . i . ver . 1. + Paft . iv . ver . 1 . Past . ii . Foreft , Foreft , of the SULTRY SIRIUS , * of the AND GENIUS OF POPE . 5.
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... speaking : they most strongly exaggerate his remarkable fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! Thou ? Thou art dashed down to the earth ...
... speaking : they most strongly exaggerate his remarkable fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! Thou ? Thou art dashed down to the earth ...
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... speaking , and madly boasting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is wonderfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body of the king of ...
... speaking , and madly boasting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is wonderfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body of the king of ...
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... speaking in order ; and behold them acting their several parts , as it were in a drama . One continued action is carried on ; or rather a various and manifold feries of different actions is connected . Every excellence , more peculiarly ...
... speaking in order ; and behold them acting their several parts , as it were in a drama . One continued action is carried on ; or rather a various and manifold feries of different actions is connected . Every excellence , more peculiarly ...
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumſtances compofition Corneille criticiſm defign deſcribed deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficiently fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Homer Iliad images imagination infert inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft laſt loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt nature numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes preſent profe publiſhed Quintilian Racine raiſed reaſon remarkable repreſent reſpect ſays ſcene ſeem ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſtanza ſtory ſtriking ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſh writing