An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... faid to be pro- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs furprifing , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained so unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sici- lian mafter ...
... faid to be pro- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs furprifing , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained so unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sici- lian mafter ...
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... compofi- tions of POPE . The feafon being winter , Mil- ton has faid , that in honour to Jefus , Nature in awe to him Had dofft her gawdy trim . And And afterwards obferves , in a very epigram- matic and 40 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... compofi- tions of POPE . The feafon being winter , Mil- ton has faid , that in honour to Jefus , Nature in awe to him Had dofft her gawdy trim . And And afterwards obferves , in a very epigram- matic and 40 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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... faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are feldom accurately marked ; examine the exactness of the ensuing defcrip- tion , and confider what a perfect idea it com- municates to the mind . Around th ...
... faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are feldom accurately marked ; examine the exactness of the ensuing defcrip- tion , and confider what a perfect idea it com- municates to the mind . Around th ...
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... faid on this fubject . " I know fays he , the chorus is attended with inconve- " niences , and that it has fometimes com- pelled the ancients to violate probability ; " but it notwithstanding is apparent by " the use they fometimes made ...
... faid on this fubject . " I know fays he , the chorus is attended with inconve- " niences , and that it has fometimes com- pelled the ancients to violate probability ; " but it notwithstanding is apparent by " the use they fometimes made ...
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... faid to have re- cited poems and orations of his writing , when he was feven . It is however certain , which is more extraordinary , that he produced his Rinaldo in his eighteenth year , no bad curfor to the Gierufalemma Liberata , and ...
... faid to have re- cited poems and orations of his writing , when he was feven . It is however certain , which is more extraordinary , that he produced his Rinaldo in his eighteenth year , no bad curfor to the Gierufalemma Liberata , and ...
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