An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... critics have agreed to exftirpate and explode . But I do not remember , that even these laft - mentioned critics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father ...
... critics have agreed to exftirpate and explode . But I do not remember , that even these laft - mentioned critics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father ...
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... criticism . " THE prophet having predicted the deliverance of the Jews , and their return into their own country from their rigorous Babylonish captivity , inftantly introduces them finging a certain triumphal fong on the fall of the ...
... criticism . " THE prophet having predicted the deliverance of the Jews , and their return into their own country from their rigorous Babylonish captivity , inftantly introduces them finging a certain triumphal fong on the fall of the ...
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... critic might have discovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which was one day to produce the Paradife Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read , or admired , is alfo of the defcriptive kind ; but the ...
... critic might have discovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which was one day to produce the Paradife Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read , or admired , is alfo of the defcriptive kind ; but the ...
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... criticism on his character , might be still augmented by an examination and developement of the beauties in the Loves of the birds , in SPRING , verfe 580. A view of the torrid zone in SUMMER , verfe 626. The rife of fountains and ...
... criticism on his character , might be still augmented by an examination and developement of the beauties in the Loves of the birds , in SPRING , verfe 580. A view of the torrid zone in SUMMER , verfe 626. The rife of fountains and ...
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... la terre eclairée Ce que j'ai decouvert . I hope I fhall not tranfgrefs a very fenfible obfervation of Mr. POPE , who would have a true critic be Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame Still 68 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... la terre eclairée Ce que j'ai decouvert . I hope I fhall not tranfgrefs a very fenfible obfervation of Mr. POPE , who would have a true critic be Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame Still 68 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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