An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... character of an admired author , and on other collateral fubjects , that will naturally arise . No love of fingularity , no affectation of paradoxical opinions , gave rife to the following work . I revere the memory of POPE , I refpect ...
... character of an admired author , and on other collateral fubjects , that will naturally arise . No love of fingularity , no affectation of paradoxical opinions , gave rife to the following work . I revere the memory of POPE , I refpect ...
Page iv
... character ; but what can , they urge to gain the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and useful , is entirely out of the queftion all I plead for , is , to have their feveral provinces kept diftinct from each other ...
... character ; but what can , they urge to gain the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and useful , is entirely out of the queftion all I plead for , is , to have their feveral provinces kept diftinct from each other ...
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... CHARACTERS of Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINATION , " acer fpiritus ac vis , " and that alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which ...
... CHARACTERS of Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINATION , " acer fpiritus ac vis , " and that alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which ...
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... Characters of men and women , and your fprightly fatires , my good friend , are more frequently perufed , and quoted , than L'Allegro and Il Penferofo of Milton . Had you written only these fatires , you would indeed have gained the ...
... Characters of men and women , and your fprightly fatires , my good friend , are more frequently perufed , and quoted , than L'Allegro and Il Penferofo of Milton . Had you written only these fatires , you would indeed have gained the ...
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... character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the ...
... character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the ...
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