An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page ix
... excellent sense , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradise Lost , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and see whe- ther by any ...
... excellent sense , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradise Lost , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and see whe- ther by any ...
Page x
... excellent Quintilian remarks of Lyfias . And because I am perhaps ashamed or afraid to speak out in plain English , I will adopt the follow- ing passage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does ...
... excellent Quintilian remarks of Lyfias . And because I am perhaps ashamed or afraid to speak out in plain English , I will adopt the follow- ing passage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does ...
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... excellent ex- ample 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 ex- ample 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 species of poetry with so little success , and with fuch ...
... 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 species of poetry with so little success , and with fuch ...
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... The DEED OF FREEDOM purchas'd with their blood . Dodsley's Mifcellanies , vol . ii . pag . 152. See also in the same volume , an excellent ode of Mr. Cobb . extremely * v . 793. ‡ v . 795 , † 70 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... The DEED OF FREEDOM purchas'd with their blood . Dodsley's Mifcellanies , vol . ii . pag . 152. See also in the same volume , an excellent ode of Mr. Cobb . extremely * v . 793. ‡ v . 795 , † 70 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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