An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... during the last war : They abound in many new circumstances of pafloral diftrefs , and many tender images . I cannot learn the name of the author . I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate I reC 10 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... during the last war : They abound in many new circumstances of pafloral diftrefs , and many tender images . I cannot learn the name of the author . I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate I reC 10 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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... circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following circumftance : the prophet says , " The parched ground " fhall become a pool ; " Our author ...
... circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following circumftance : the prophet says , " The parched ground " fhall become a pool ; " Our author ...
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... circumstance in his appearance highly picturesque , His fea - green mantle waving with the wind . † The relievo of his urn alfo is finely imagined , The figur'd ftreams in waves of filver roll'd , And on their banks Augusta rose in gold ...
... circumstance in his appearance highly picturesque , His fea - green mantle waving with the wind . † The relievo of his urn alfo is finely imagined , The figur'd ftreams in waves of filver roll'd , And on their banks Augusta rose in gold ...
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... circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly constitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profewriter might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations crowd into my ...
... circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly constitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profewriter might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations crowd into my ...
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... circumstance would have been sufficient , as it raised our pity from a motive of gratitude ; but with this circumftance the tender * Ver . 525 . By the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates after his manner the difficulty and laboriousness ...
... circumstance would have been sufficient , as it raised our pity from a motive of gratitude ; but with this circumftance the tender * Ver . 525 . By the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates after his manner the difficulty and laboriousness ...
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumſtances compofition Corneille criticiſm defign deſcribed deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficiently fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Homer Iliad images imagination infert inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft laſt loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt nature numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes preſent profe publiſhed Quintilian Racine raiſed reaſon remarkable repreſent reſpect ſays ſcene ſeem ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſtanza ſtory ſtriking ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſh writing