An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... , a work of imagination , twentyrare to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires zásca fatires of Ariofto , are more read than the Orlando DEDICATION V.
... , a work of imagination , twentyrare to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires zásca fatires of Ariofto , are more read than the Orlando DEDICATION V.
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... fatires , my good friend , are more frequently perufed , and quoted , than L'Allegro and Il Penferofo of Milton . Had you written only these fatires , you would indeed have gained the title of a man of wit , and a man of fenfe ; but , I ...
... fatires , my good friend , are more frequently perufed , and quoted , than L'Allegro and Il Penferofo of Milton . Had you written only these fatires , you would indeed have gained the title of a man of wit , and a man of fenfe ; but , I ...
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... fatire . The name of Malherbe is refpectable , as he was the first reformer of the French poefy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a legitimate ode , though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to recommend ...
... fatire . The name of Malherbe is refpectable , as he was the first reformer of the French poefy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a legitimate ode , though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to recommend ...
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... fatire so called , were fuch as our poet remembered from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . " C << ( ( << * Nec placet ante annos vates puer : omnia justo Tempore proveniant . D M ...
... fatire so called , were fuch as our poet remembered from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . " C << ( ( << * Nec placet ante annos vates puer : omnia justo Tempore proveniant . D M ...
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... fatires , such as we now have them ; Moliere was full forty when he wrote the first of thofe comedies , on which his reputation is founded . But to excell in this fpecies of compofition , it was not sufficient for Moliere to be only a ...
... fatires , such as we now have them ; Moliere was full forty when he wrote the first of thofe comedies , on which his reputation is founded . But to excell in this fpecies of compofition , it was not sufficient for Moliere to be only a ...
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