An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately understand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we constantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age . POPE himself informs us , in a note , that he ...
... fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately understand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we constantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age . POPE himself informs us , in a note , that he ...
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... fame time contracted the exuberance of Dryden . of the calamities fuppofed to have been felt by the shepherds of Germany during the last war : They abound in many new circumstances of pafloral diftrefs , and many tender images . I ...
... fame time contracted the exuberance of Dryden . of the calamities fuppofed to have been felt by the shepherds of Germany during the last war : They abound in many new circumstances of pafloral diftrefs , and many tender images . I ...
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... fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the latter is perhaps a more proper and interefting subject for poetry than the former ; as such kinds ...
... fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the latter is perhaps a more proper and interefting subject for poetry than the former ; as such kinds ...
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... fame prince , by that diligent enenquirer into antiquity the President Henault , in a paffage that contains fome curious particulars , characteristical of the manner of that age . " This monarch protected letters , at a " time , when ...
... fame prince , by that diligent enenquirer into antiquity the President Henault , in a paffage that contains fome curious particulars , characteristical of the manner of that age . " This monarch protected letters , at a " time , when ...
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... fame manner as the real fight of fuch scenes and profpects is apt to give the mind a * Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . comcomposed turn , and incline it to thoughts and contemplations that 30 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... fame manner as the real fight of fuch scenes and profpects is apt to give the mind a * Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . comcomposed turn , and incline it to thoughts and contemplations that 30 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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