An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... feems was of opinion , that descriptive poetry is a compofition as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not presume to say it is equal , either in dignity or utility , to ...
... feems was of opinion , that descriptive poetry is a compofition as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not presume to say it is equal , either in dignity or utility , to ...
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... etre peintes dans toute l'etenduë qu'elles demandent ; que d'ailleurs elle ne fauroit fouvent mettre en chant les expreffions vraiment fublimes et courageuses . ents , ents , as the ODE ; which feems owing to 64 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... etre peintes dans toute l'etenduë qu'elles demandent ; que d'ailleurs elle ne fauroit fouvent mettre en chant les expreffions vraiment fublimes et courageuses . ents , ents , as the ODE ; which feems owing to 64 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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Joseph Warton. ents , as the ODE ; which feems owing to the harshness and untuneablenefs of modern languages , abounding in monofyllables , and crowded with confonants . This particularly is the cafe of the English , whofe original is ...
Joseph Warton. ents , as the ODE ; which feems owing to the harshness and untuneablenefs of modern languages , abounding in monofyllables , and crowded with confonants . This particularly is the cafe of the English , whofe original is ...
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... , and to the stanza of Mr. Weft's ode on the barons procuring magna charta , which I chufe to give at length , because it contains almost all the the different measures of which the English language feems capable AND GENIUS OF POPE . 69.
... , and to the stanza of Mr. Weft's ode on the barons procuring magna charta , which I chufe to give at length , because it contains almost all the the different measures of which the English language feems capable AND GENIUS OF POPE . 69.
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Joseph Warton. the different measures of which the English language feems capable . * THE next LYRIC compofitions of Pope , are two choruses inserted in a very heavy tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buckingham ; in which ...
Joseph Warton. the different measures of which the English language feems capable . * THE next LYRIC compofitions of Pope , are two choruses inserted in a very heavy tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buckingham ; in which ...
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