An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page iv
... excellent one of the art . We do not , it fhould feem , fufficiently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF 3 . " d & w WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift , were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of ...
... excellent one of the art . We do not , it fhould feem , fufficiently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF 3 . " d & w WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift , were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of ...
Page ix
... excellent fenfe , but juft as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recommends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any procefs ...
... excellent fenfe , but juft as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recommends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any procefs ...
Page x
... excellent Quintilian remarks of Lyfias . And because I am perhaps afhamed or afraid to speak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his ...
... excellent Quintilian remarks of Lyfias . And because I am perhaps afhamed or afraid to speak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his ...
Page 34
... excellent example extant , of the beauty here intended , in the third Georgic of Virgil : * The poet having mournfully described a heifer struck with a peftilence , and falling down dead in the middle of his work , artfully reminds us ...
... excellent example extant , of the beauty here intended , in the third Georgic of Virgil : * The poet having mournfully described a heifer struck with a peftilence , and falling down dead in the middle of his work , artfully reminds us ...
Page 64
... excellent on the whole , is not free from one or two blemishes of this fort , particularly in the air , " with ravish'd " ears , " & c . THE moderns have perhaps practised no fpecies of poetry with fo little fuccefs , and with such ...
... excellent on the whole , is not free from one or two blemishes of this fort , particularly in the air , " with ravish'd " ears , " & c . THE moderns have perhaps practised no fpecies of poetry with fo little fuccefs , and with such ...
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