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 taste , and fome fancy in defcribing familiar life . Here may be numbered , PRIOR , WALLER , WALLER , PARNELL , SWIFT , FENTON . In ...
... DRYDEN , DONNE , DENHAM , COWLey , CONGREVE . In the third clafs may be placed , men of wit , of elegant taste , and fome fancy in defcribing familiar life . Here may be numbered , PRIOR , WALLER , WALLER , PARNELL , SWIFT , FENTON . In ...
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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 on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inserting in this note . It was fet to mufic 1687. by I. Baptifta 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. Baptifta Dragh . What paffion cannot mufic raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the chorded shell , His lift'ning ...
Page 54
... 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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... Dryden , both of them conclude with an epigram of four lines ; a fpecies of wit as flagrantly unfuitable to the dignity , and as foreign to the nature , of the lyric , as it is of the epic mufe . IT is to be regretted , that Mr. Handel ...
... Dryden , both of them conclude with an epigram of four lines ; a fpecies of wit as flagrantly unfuitable to the dignity , and as foreign to the nature , of the lyric , as it is of the epic mufe . IT is to be regretted , that Mr. Handel ...
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