An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... beautiful : it's vallies and it's precipices , it's grot- tos and cascades were swEETLY INTER- CHANGED , and it's fruits and flowers were lavish and luscious . The poet defcribed what he faw and felt : and had no need to have recourse ...
... beautiful : it's vallies and it's precipices , it's grot- tos and cascades were swEETLY INTER- CHANGED , and it's fruits and flowers were lavish and luscious . The poet defcribed what he faw and felt : and had no need to have recourse ...
Page 15
... beautiful , per- fonifications . The fong begins with a sudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and death of the tyrant . Earth with her inhabitants triumphs ; the ...
... beautiful , per- fonifications . The fong begins with a sudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and death of the tyrant . Earth with her inhabitants triumphs ; the ...
Page 37
... historically true , are poetically beautiful . The lonely mountains o'er , And the refounding fhore , A voice of weeping heard , and loud lament ! From From haunted spring , and dale Edg'd with poplar pale AND GENIUS OF POPE . 37.
... historically true , are poetically beautiful . The lonely mountains o'er , And the refounding fhore , A voice of weeping heard , and loud lament ! From From haunted spring , and dale Edg'd with poplar pale AND GENIUS OF POPE . 37.
Page 60
... beautiful brevity and ab- ruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode ; Hark ! Hamus refounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah ! fee he dies ! Yet ev'n in death Eurydice he fung . Where instead of fung , Virgil fays vocabat , which is ...
... beautiful brevity and ab- ruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode ; Hark ! Hamus refounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah ! fee he dies ! Yet ev'n in death Eurydice he fung . Where instead of fung , Virgil fays vocabat , which is ...
Page 62
... beautiful and po- etical perfonifications ; Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus roufes from his bed , Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , Liftning Envy drops her fnakes ; Inteftine war no more our paffions wage , And giddy factions hear ...
... beautiful and po- etical perfonifications ; Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus roufes from his bed , Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , Liftning Envy drops her fnakes ; Inteftine war no more our paffions wage , And giddy factions hear ...
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