An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page 42
... called a set of hereditary images , without proper regard to the age , or climate , or occafion , in which they were formerly used . Though the diction of the the SEASONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and fometimes 42 ESSAY ON ...
... called a set of hereditary images , without proper regard to the age , or climate , or occafion , in which they were formerly used . Though the diction of the the SEASONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and fometimes 42 ESSAY ON ...
Page 53
... called , in Tonfon's Mifcellanies . We have therefore also preserved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inferting in this note . It was fet to mufic 1687. by I. Baptifta Dragh ...
... called , in Tonfon's Mifcellanies . We have therefore also preserved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inferting in this note . It was fet to mufic 1687. by I. Baptifta Dragh ...
Page 60
... called miferam Eurydicen . I am fenfible POPE never intended an exact tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that in my humble judgment he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the story ...
... called miferam Eurydicen . I am fenfible POPE never intended an exact tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that in my humble judgment he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the story ...
Page 83
... called , were fuch as our poet remembered from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . " C << ( ( << * Nec placet ante annos vates puer : omnia justo Tempore proveniant . D M 2 Vida ...
... called , were fuch as our poet remembered from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . " C << ( ( << * Nec placet ante annos vates puer : omnia justo Tempore proveniant . D M 2 Vida ...
Page 138
... called the GROSSNESS of fome of his images , may please to attend to the following remark of a writer , by no means prejudiced in favour of the ancients . " Quant a ce qu'on appelle GROSSIERETE dans les héros d ' Homére , on peut rire ...
... called the GROSSNESS of fome of his images , may please to attend to the following remark of a writer , by no means prejudiced in favour of the ancients . " Quant a ce qu'on appelle GROSSIERETE dans les héros d ' Homére , on peut rire ...
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