An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto us ? Is thy pride dashed down to Orcus , the noise of thy harps ? The worm is ftrewn under thee , the earth - worm is thy covering ! The Jews are again represented speaking : they moft ...
... also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto us ? Is thy pride dashed down to Orcus , the noise of thy harps ? The worm is ftrewn under thee , the earth - worm is thy covering ! The Jews are again represented speaking : they moft ...
Page 38
... also verfes written at a Solemn mufic , and on the Paffion , in the fame volume , and a vacation exercise , pag . y . in all which are to be found many strokes of the sublime . The The oracles are dumb , * No voice or hideous 38 ESSAY ...
... also verfes written at a Solemn mufic , and on the Paffion , in the fame volume , and a vacation exercise , pag . y . in all which are to be found many strokes of the sublime . The The oracles are dumb , * No voice or hideous 38 ESSAY ...
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... also penfively ftood , and liftened at midnight to the dafhing of the waters , occafioned by throwing the dead bodies into the fea ; Heard , nightly , plung'd into the fullen waves , The frequent corfe . † A minute and particular ...
... also penfively ftood , and liftened at midnight to the dafhing of the waters , occafioned by throwing the dead bodies into the fea ; Heard , nightly , plung'd into the fullen waves , The frequent corfe . † A minute and particular ...
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... condemn Thomson , they must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the nobleft descriptive poem extant , I mean , that of Lucretius . WE are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of H 2 WE AND GENIUS OF POPE . 51.
... condemn Thomson , they must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the nobleft descriptive poem extant , I mean , that of Lucretius . WE are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of H 2 WE AND GENIUS OF POPE . 51.
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... also preserved another , and an earlier ode , of 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 ...
... also preserved another , and an earlier ode , of 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 ...
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