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 follow- ing 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 follow- ing 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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... - tainly a just one , may it not be asked , why he should speak , the scene lying in Windsor- * Idyll . i . ver . 1. + Paft . iv . ver . 1 . + Past . ii . Foreft , Foreft , of the SULTRY SIRIUS , * of the AND GENIUS OF POPE . 5.
... - tainly a just one , may it not be asked , why he should speak , the scene lying in Windsor- * Idyll . 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 , fon 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 , fon of the morning ! Thou Thou art dashed down to the earth ...
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... speaking , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is won- derfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body of the king ...
... speaking , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is won- derfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body of the king ...
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... speaking in order ; and behold them acting their feveral parts , as it were in a drama . One continued action is carried on ; or rather a various and manifold feries of dif- ferent actions is connected . Every excellence , more ...
... speaking in order ; and behold them acting their feveral parts , as it were in a drama . One continued action is carried on ; or rather a various and manifold feries of dif- ferent actions is connected . Every excellence , more ...
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumſtances cloſely compofition Corneille criticiſm defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh epiftles eſpecially Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fuperior fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Iliad images imagination 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 reafon repreſent reſpect ſay ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpeech ſpirit ſtanza ſtate ſtory ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſhes writing