An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... Admiration and envy , their conftant attendants , like two unfkilful artifts , are apt to overcharge their pieces with too great a quantity of light or of shade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that ...
... Admiration and envy , their conftant attendants , like two unfkilful artifts , are apt to overcharge their pieces with too great a quantity of light or of shade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that ...
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... our colour , and our strange attire . And the benevolence and poetry of the fucceeding wish , are worthy admiration , * Ver . 400. et feq . E 2 Till Till the freed Indians , in their native groves , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 27.
... our colour , and our strange attire . And the benevolence and poetry of the fucceeding wish , are worthy admiration , * Ver . 400. et feq . E 2 Till Till the freed Indians , in their native groves , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 27.
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... admirable mufic by Mr. Handel . And indeed this Volume of Milton's miscellaneous poems has not till very lately met with suitable regard . Shall I offend any rational admirer of POPE by remarking , that these juvenile descriptive poems ...
... admirable mufic by Mr. Handel . And indeed this Volume of Milton's miscellaneous poems has not till very lately met with suitable regard . Shall I offend any rational admirer of POPE by remarking , that these juvenile descriptive poems ...
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... line ; as well as the ftroke of nature , in making these rude Hearers imagine fome god lay concealed in this first musician's inftrument . and and illuftrated , in numbers , that admirably represent , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 53.
... line ; as well as the ftroke of nature , in making these rude Hearers imagine fome god lay concealed in this first musician's inftrument . and and illuftrated , in numbers , that admirably represent , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 53.
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Joseph Warton. and illuftrated , in numbers , that admirably represent , and correspond to its different qualities and genius . The beginning of the second stanza , on the power which mufic exerts over the paffions , is a little flat ...
Joseph Warton. and illuftrated , in numbers , that admirably represent , and correspond to its different qualities and genius . The beginning of the second stanza , on the power which mufic exerts over the paffions , is a little flat ...
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Abelard Addiſon ¯neid alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant cauſe character circumſtances compofition Corneille criticiſm defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh epiftles Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays feem fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies ftill ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient 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 reaſon repreſent reſpect ſay ſcene ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpeech ſpirit ſtanza ſtory ſtriking ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſhes writing