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 speech , our colour , and our strange attire . And the benevolence and poetry of the fuc- ceeding 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 speech , our colour , and our strange attire . And the benevolence and poetry of the fuc- ceeding 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 music 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 thefe juvenile descriptive poems ...
... admirable music 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 thefe juvenile descriptive poems ...
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... 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 tertio," to use an expreffion of Quintilian. ...
... 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 tertio," to use an expreffion of Quintilian. ...
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Joseph Warton. and illuftrated , in numbers , that admirably represent , and correspond to its different qua- lities and genius . The beginning of the se- cond stanza , on the power which mufic ex- erts over the paffions , is a little ...
Joseph Warton. and illuftrated , in numbers , that admirably represent , and correspond to its different qua- lities and genius . The beginning of the se- cond stanza , on the power which mufic ex- erts over the paffions , is a little ...
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