An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... ELOISA to Abelard . IT T is no small merit in Ovid , to have in- vented this beautiful species of writing epistles under feigned characters . It is a high improvement on the Greek elegy ; to which its dramatic nature renders it greatly ...
... ELOISA to Abelard . IT T is no small merit in Ovid , to have in- vented this beautiful species of writing epistles under feigned characters . It is a high improvement on the Greek elegy ; to which its dramatic nature renders it greatly ...
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... ELOISA and ABELARD . Their distresses were of a most SINGULAR and PECULIAR kind ; and their names sufficiently known , but not grown trite or common , by too frequent usage . POPE was a most excellent IMPROVER , if no great original ...
... ELOISA and ABELARD . Their distresses were of a most SINGULAR and PECULIAR kind ; and their names sufficiently known , but not grown trite or common , by too frequent usage . POPE was a most excellent IMPROVER , if no great original ...
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... * Whom Marot praises as the Ennius of France , Notre Ennius Guillaume de Lorris . He took his name from the town of Lorris where he was born . to to have flowed , from his having given Eloisa the AND GENIUS OF POPE . 301.
... * Whom Marot praises as the Ennius of France , Notre Ennius Guillaume de Lorris . He took his name from the town of Lorris where he was born . to to have flowed , from his having given Eloisa the AND GENIUS OF POPE . 301.
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Joseph Warton. to have flowed , from his having given Eloisa the name of ROSE , in one of the many fon- netts he addrest to her . In this * romance , there are many severe and fatirical strokes on the character of Eloisa , which the pen ...
Joseph Warton. to have flowed , from his having given Eloisa the name of ROSE , in one of the many fon- netts he addrest to her . In this * romance , there are many severe and fatirical strokes on the character of Eloisa , which the pen ...
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... Eloisa ; Abelard himself says , that she was , " facie non infima ; " her extraordinary learn- ing many circumstances concur to confirm ; particularly one , which is , that the nuns of the Paraclete are wont to have the office of ...
... Eloisa ; Abelard himself says , that she was , " facie non infima ; " her extraordinary learn- ing many circumstances concur to confirm ; particularly one , which is , that the nuns of the Paraclete are wont to have the office of ...
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