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 ele- gance and energy : Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla ...
... equal to any description in Virgil , in point of ele- gance and energy : Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla ...
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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 fen- timents . I may however remind such con- temners of it , that , in a sister ...
... equal , either in dignity or utility , to thofe compofitions that lay open the internal conftitution of man , and that IMITATE characters , manners , and fen- timents . I may however remind such con- temners of it , that , in a sister ...
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... equal to the conclufion of that ftanza . 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 conclufion of that ftanza . 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 beauty and decorum in an addrefs to the god of love , at verse 791 of that play . And thus laftly , when * The fubject and fcene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par ...
... equal beauty and decorum in an addrefs to the god of love , at verse 791 of that play . And thus laftly , when * The fubject and fcene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par ...
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