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 are common poets more confused and unmeaning , than in their defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are feldom accurately marked ; examine the exactness ...
... fubject are common poets more confused and unmeaning , than in their defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are feldom accurately marked ; examine the exactness ...
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... fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inferting 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 inferting 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 of the preceding one ; the description of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell , are elegantly tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil , * and happily ...
... fubject of the preceding one ; the description of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell , are elegantly tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil , * and happily ...
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... mythology , as the first legiflator and civilizer of mankind . I fhall here infert a ftanza of it , containing part of what relates to this fubject . ANTIS TROPHE . II . Such was wife Orpheus ' ANTIS 60 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... mythology , as the first legiflator and civilizer of mankind . I fhall here infert a ftanza of it , containing part of what relates to this fubject . ANTIS TROPHE . II . Such was wife Orpheus ' ANTIS 60 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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