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 re- member , that even these laft - mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the ...
... critics have agreed to exftirpate and explode . But I do not re- member , that even these laft - mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the ...
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... criticism . " THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews , and their return into their own country from their rigorous Baby- lonish captivity , inftantly introduces them finging a certain triumphal fong on the fall of ...
... criticism . " THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews , and their return into their own country from their rigorous Baby- lonish captivity , inftantly introduces them finging a certain triumphal fong on the fall of ...
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... critic might have discovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which was one day to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read , or admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but the ...
... critic might have discovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which was one day to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read , or admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but the ...
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... 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 fentiment, and philosophical reflection, than ...
... 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 fentiment, and philosophical reflection, than ...
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... critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . To imagine , that the great Grecian mafters retained it only out of respect to its antiquity , and from no ...
... critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . To imagine , that the great Grecian mafters retained it only out of respect to its antiquity , and from no ...
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