An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... common . That the defign of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the golden age , is an empty notion , which , though fupported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think , all rational critics have agreed to ...
... common . That the defign of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the golden age , is an empty notion , which , though fupported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think , all rational critics have agreed to ...
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... common rite of fepulture , which was defervedly denied to him for his cruelty and oppreffion , and curfe his name , his race , and pofterity . The scene is closed by a moft awful speech of God himself , menacing a perpetual extirpation ...
... common rite of fepulture , which was defervedly denied to him for his cruelty and oppreffion , and curfe his name , his race , and pofterity . The scene is closed by a moft awful speech of God himself , menacing a perpetual extirpation ...
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... common poets more confused and unmeaning , than in their defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are feldom accurately marked ; examine the exactness of the ...
... common poets more confused and unmeaning , than in their defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are feldom accurately marked ; examine the exactness of the ...
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... common for any poet to feize . Let us however moderate the matter , and fay , what perhaps is the real fact , that POPE fell into the thoughts of Flatman unawares , and without defign ; and having formerly read him , imperceptibly ...
... common for any poet to feize . Let us however moderate the matter , and fay , what perhaps is the real fact , that POPE fell into the thoughts of Flatman unawares , and without defign ; and having formerly read him , imperceptibly ...
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... common life ; will always be perfpicuous if not elevated ; will never difguft , if not tranfport his readers ; will avoid the groffer faults , if not arrive at the greater beauties of compofition ; The " eloquenti¿ genus , " for which ...
... common life ; will always be perfpicuous if not elevated ; will never difguft , if not tranfport his readers ; will avoid the groffer faults , if not arrive at the greater beauties of compofition ; The " eloquenti¿ genus , " for which ...
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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