An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... equal to any description in Virgil , in point of eleenergy : gance and Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu pr¿la novo ...
... equal to any description in Virgil , in point of eleenergy : gance and Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu pr¿la novo ...
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... equal , either in dignity or utility , to thofe compofitions that lay open the internal conftitution of man , and that IMITATE characters , manners , and fentiments . I may however remind fuch contemners of it , that , in a fister - art ...
... equal , either in dignity or utility , to thofe compofitions that lay open the internal conftitution of man , and that IMITATE characters , manners , and fentiments . I may however remind fuch contemners of it , that , in a fister - art ...
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... equal to the conclusion of that stanza . The animating fong that Orpheus fung to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius Flaccus , for that of Apollonius is of a different nature , is the happily chosen subject of the fourth . On hearing ...
... equal to the conclusion of that stanza . The animating fong that Orpheus fung to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius Flaccus , for that of Apollonius is of a different nature , is the happily chosen subject of the fourth . On hearing ...
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Joseph Warton. fatyric or moral poetry , will never fucceed , with equal merit , in the higher branches of this art . In his ode on the taking Namur , are inftances of the * BOMBASTIC , of the PROSAIC , and of the PUERILE . And it is no ...
Joseph Warton. fatyric or moral poetry , will never fucceed , with equal merit , in the higher branches of this art . In his ode on the taking Namur , are inftances of the * BOMBASTIC , of the PROSAIC , and of the PUERILE . And it is no ...
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... equal propriety in twenty other tragedies . This remark of Aristotle , tho he does not himself produce any examples , may be verified from the following among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing * Κεφ . η . περί ...
... equal propriety in twenty other tragedies . This remark of Aristotle , tho he does not himself produce any examples , may be verified from the following among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing * Κεφ . η . περί ...
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