An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... fhall we fay of this paffage ? --Why , that it is moft excellent fenfe , but juft as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recommends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of ...
... fhall we fay of this paffage ? --Why , that it is moft excellent fenfe , but juft as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recommends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of ...
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... fhall neither cenfure nor commend , without alleging the reason on which my opinion is founded , I fhall be entirely unmoved at the imputation of malignity , or the clamours of popular prejudice . It is fomething strange , that in the ...
... fhall neither cenfure nor commend , without alleging the reason on which my opinion is founded , I fhall be entirely unmoved at the imputation of malignity , or the clamours of popular prejudice . It is fomething strange , that in the ...
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... fhall become a pool ; " Our author expreffes this idea by faying , that the shepherd , fball START amid the thirsty wild to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear . † A ftriking example of a fimilar beauty may be added from ...
... fhall become a pool ; " Our author expreffes this idea by faying , that the shepherd , fball START amid the thirsty wild to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear . † A ftriking example of a fimilar beauty may be added from ...
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... fhall cover thee : " the DROMEDARIES of Median and Ephah : " all they from Sheba fhall come : they " fhall bring gold and incenfe , and they " fhall fhew forth the praises of the Lord . " All the FLOCKS of Kedar fhall be gathered ...
... fhall cover thee : " the DROMEDARIES of Median and Ephah : " all they from Sheba fhall come : they " fhall bring gold and incenfe , and they " fhall fhew forth the praises of the Lord . " All the FLOCKS of Kedar fhall be gathered ...
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... fhall , in order to preserve impartiality , produce another from Milton , in which I think him inferior to the last quoted paffage , except perhaps in the third line ; first remarking that both authors are much indebted to Spenfer ...
... fhall , in order to preserve impartiality , produce another from Milton , in which I think him inferior to the last quoted paffage , except perhaps in the third line ; first remarking that both authors are much indebted to Spenfer ...
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