An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHARACTERS of Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINATION , " acer fpiritus ac vis ...
... elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHARACTERS of Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINATION , " acer fpiritus ac vis ...
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... CONGREVE . In the third clafs may be placed , men of wit , of elegant tafte , and fome fancy in describing familiar Here may be numbered , PRIOR , life . WALLER , " WALLER , PARNELL , SWIFT , FENTON . In the DEDICATION . xi.
... CONGREVE . In the third clafs may be placed , men of wit , of elegant tafte , and fome fancy in describing familiar Here may be numbered , PRIOR , life . WALLER , " WALLER , PARNELL , SWIFT , FENTON . In the DEDICATION . xi.
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... elegant edition of Mr. Warburton . As I fhall neither cenfure nor commend , without alleging the reason on which my opinion is founded , I fhall be entirely unmoved at the imputation of malignity , or the clamours of popular prejudice ...
... elegant edition of Mr. Warburton . As I fhall neither cenfure nor commend , without alleging the reason on which my opinion is founded , I fhall be entirely unmoved at the imputation of malignity , or the clamours of popular prejudice ...
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... than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i . 66. † POPE , Paft . ii . 24. MILTON . A SHEPA SHEPHERD in Theocritus wishes with much tenderness and elegance , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 7.
... than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i . 66. † POPE , Paft . ii . 24. MILTON . A SHEPA SHEPHERD in Theocritus wishes with much tenderness and elegance , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 7.
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Joseph Warton. A SHEPHERD in Theocritus wishes with much tenderness and elegance , both which muft fuffer in a literal translation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into your grotto , and be permitted to creep among the ...
Joseph Warton. A SHEPHERD in Theocritus wishes with much tenderness and elegance , both which muft fuffer in a literal translation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into your grotto , and be permitted to creep among the ...
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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