An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... 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 re- 10 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS of the firft new, and interefting: its compo- ...
... 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 re- 10 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS of the firft new, and interefting: its compo- ...
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... circumstances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the latter is perhaps a more proper and interesting fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the ...
... circumstances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the latter is perhaps a more proper and interesting fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the ...
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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 con- stitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profe- writer might say , " Then shall the most " diftant nations crowd into ...
... circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly con- stitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profe- writer might say , " Then shall the most " diftant nations crowd into ...
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... circumstance would have been fufficient , as it raised our pity from a motive of grati- tude ; but with this circumftance the tender * Ver . 525 . By the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates after his manner the difficulty and laborioufnefs ...
... circumstance would have been fufficient , as it raised our pity from a motive of grati- tude ; but with this circumftance the tender * Ver . 525 . By the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates after his manner the difficulty and laborioufnefs ...
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