An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... DRYDEN , DONNE , DENHAM , COWLEY , CONGREVE . In the third clafs may be placed , men of wit , of elegant tafte , and fome fancy in describing familiar Here may be numbered , PRIOR , life . WALLER , " WALLER , PARNELL , SWIFT , FENTON ...
... DRYDEN , DONNE , DENHAM , COWLEY , CONGREVE . In the third clafs may be placed , men of wit , of elegant tafte , and fome fancy in describing familiar Here may be numbered , PRIOR , life . WALLER , " WALLER , PARNELL , SWIFT , FENTON ...
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... Dryden . of the calamities fuppofed to have been felt by the shepherds of Germany during the last war : They abound in many new circumstances of pafloral diftrefs , and many tender images . I cannot learn the name of the author . I ...
... Dryden . of the calamities fuppofed to have been felt by the shepherds of Germany during the last war : They abound in many new circumstances of pafloral diftrefs , and many tender images . I cannot learn the name of the author . I ...
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... Dryden had finished a translation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after so great a master ; he might have said with more propriety , I will not write a mufic - ode after Alexander's Feast , which the variety and harmony ...
... Dryden had finished a translation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after so great a master ; he might have said with more propriety , I will not write a mufic - ode after Alexander's Feast , which the variety and harmony ...
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... Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inserting in this note . It was fet to mufic 1687. by I. Baptista Dragh . What paffion cannot mufic raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the chorded shell , His lift'ning ...
... Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inserting in this note . It was fet to mufic 1687. by I. Baptista Dragh . What paffion cannot mufic raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the chorded shell , His lift'ning ...
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... Dryden afcribes to the fong of his Grecian artist ; for when Timotheus cries out REVENGE , raises the furies , and calls up to Alexander's view a troop of Grecian ghosts that were flain and left unburied , inglorious and forgotten ...
... Dryden afcribes to the fong of his Grecian artist ; for when Timotheus cries out REVENGE , raises the furies , and calls up to Alexander's view a troop of Grecian ghosts that were flain and left unburied , inglorious and forgotten ...
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