An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention . OUR author , who had received an ...
... fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention . OUR author , who had received an ...
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... fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : pity being a stronger sensation than complacency . Accordingly a noble ode on the destruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth ...
... fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : pity being a stronger sensation than complacency . Accordingly a noble ode on the destruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth ...
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... fubject , is manifeft and remarkable . What profaic tameness and infipi- dity do we meet with in the following lines ? Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it ...
... fubject , is manifeft and remarkable . What profaic tameness and infipi- dity do we meet with in the following lines ? Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it ...
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... fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inserting in this note . It was fet to mufic 1687. by I. Baptifta Dragh . What paffion cannot mufic raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the chorded shell , His lift'ning brethren stood ...
... fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inserting in this note . It was fet to mufic 1687. by I. Baptifta Dragh . What paffion cannot mufic raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the chorded shell , His lift'ning brethren stood ...
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... fubject in question . The fupplicating song at the beginning of the fixth ftanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , especially when he con- jures the powers below , * Ver . 480 . By By the hero's armed fhades Glittering through the ...
... fubject in question . The fupplicating song at the beginning of the fixth ftanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , especially when he con- jures the powers below , * Ver . 480 . By By the hero's armed fhades Glittering through the ...
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