An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... stanzas : * On the morning of Christ's nativity . Newton's edition , ⚫ctavo . Vol . 2. pag . 28 , 29. of the miscellaneous poems . + See also verses written at a Solemn music , and on the Passion , in the same volume , and a vacation ...
... stanzas : * On the morning of Christ's nativity . Newton's edition , ⚫ctavo . Vol . 2. pag . 28 , 29. of the miscellaneous poems . + See also verses written at a Solemn music , and on the Passion , in the same volume , and a vacation ...
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Joseph Warton. tertio , " to use an expression of Quintilian . The first stanza is almost a perfect concert of itself ; every different instrument is described There follows in this stanza , which is the third , a description of a ...
Joseph Warton. tertio , " to use an expression of Quintilian . The first stanza is almost a perfect concert of itself ; every different instrument is described There follows in this stanza , which is the third , a description of a ...
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... stanza , on the power which mufic ex- erts over the passions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclufion of that stanza . The animating song that Orpheus sung to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius Flaccus , for ...
... stanza , on the power which mufic ex- erts over the passions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclufion of that stanza . The animating song that Orpheus sung to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius Flaccus , for ...
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... stanza is alive , fublime , and animated to an unparallelled degree ; the poet had so strongly possessed himself of the action described , that he places it fully before the eyes of the reader . THE defcent of Orpheus into hell is grace ...
... stanza is alive , fublime , and animated to an unparallelled degree ; the poet had so strongly possessed himself of the action described , that he places it fully before the eyes of the reader . THE defcent of Orpheus into hell is grace ...
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... stanza are of so burlesque and ridiculous a kind , and have so much the air of an Hudibrastic song at a county election , that one is amazed and con- cerned to find them in a serious ode , and in an ode of a writer eminently skilled ...
... stanza are of so burlesque and ridiculous a kind , and have so much the air of an Hudibrastic song at a county election , that one is amazed and con- cerned to find them in a serious ode , and in an ode of a writer eminently skilled ...
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