An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling . Swift's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular , than Akenfide's noble ode to Lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your fprightly fatires , my good friend ...
... fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling . Swift's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular , than Akenfide's noble ode to Lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your fprightly fatires , my good friend ...
Page viii
... cries whore , knave , - and " cuckold , from his cage , tho ' he rightly " call many a paffenger , you hold him no ( c philofopher . And yet , fuch is the fate ( 6 7 ( ( of lo " 66 of all extremes , men may be read too viii DEDICATION .
... cries whore , knave , - and " cuckold , from his cage , tho ' he rightly " call many a paffenger , you hold him no ( c philofopher . And yet , fuch is the fate ( 6 7 ( ( of lo " 66 of all extremes , men may be read too viii DEDICATION .
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... fuch as poffeffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but had noble talents for moral and ethical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , DONNE , DENHAM , COWLEY , CONGREVE . In the third clafs may be placed , men ...
... fuch as poffeffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but had noble talents for moral and ethical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , DONNE , DENHAM , COWLEY , CONGREVE . In the third clafs may be placed , men ...
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... fuch circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly constitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profewriter might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations crowd into ...
... fuch circumstances , as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly constitutes true poetry . An hiftorian or profewriter might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations crowd into ...
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... that in describing the dreadful inhabitants of the portal of hell , Virgil has not always used * Ver . 407 . + Ver . 411. et feq . fuch fuch adjuncts and epithets as a painter or statuary might 28 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... that in describing the dreadful inhabitants of the portal of hell , Virgil has not always used * Ver . 407 . + Ver . 411. et feq . fuch fuch adjuncts and epithets as a painter or statuary might 28 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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