An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page 52
... grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks and dwells upon the base . This almoft defcends to burlesque . What follows is hardly thyme , and furely not poetry : Confecrate ...
... grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks and dwells upon the base . This almoft defcends to burlesque . What follows is hardly thyme , and furely not poetry : Confecrate ...
Page 137
... grace beyond the reach of art , Which , without paffing through the judgment , gains The heart , and all it's ends at once obtains . † HERE is evidently a blameable mixture of metaphors , where the attributes of the horse and the writer ...
... grace beyond the reach of art , Which , without paffing through the judgment , gains The heart , and all it's ends at once obtains . † HERE is evidently a blameable mixture of metaphors , where the attributes of the horse and the writer ...
Page 145
... grace to your play , that all the rules in the universe must not stand in competition with it . Well , Sir Knight , replied the Batchelor , for your fake , and for U the the honour of chivalry , I will not leave out AND GENIUS OF POPE .
... grace to your play , that all the rules in the universe must not stand in competition with it . Well , Sir Knight , replied the Batchelor , for your fake , and for U the the honour of chivalry , I will not leave out AND GENIUS OF POPE .
Page 151
... Grace fay , that the author employed the GREATEST PART OF A SUMMER , in compofing , and correcting them . So that however he is generally reputed the parent of those swarms of infect - wits , who affect to be thought easy writers , it ...
... Grace fay , that the author employed the GREATEST PART OF A SUMMER , in compofing , and correcting them . So that however he is generally reputed the parent of those swarms of infect - wits , who affect to be thought easy writers , it ...
Page 157
... grace , which Time alone can grant . To future ages fhall your fame convey , And give more beauties than he takes away . IF POPE has fo much excelled in speaking in the properest terms of this art , it may perhaps be ascribed to his ...
... grace , which Time alone can grant . To future ages fhall your fame convey , And give more beauties than he takes away . IF POPE has fo much excelled in speaking in the properest terms of this art , it may perhaps be ascribed to his ...
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumſtances compofition Corneille criticiſm defign deſcribed deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficiently fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Homer Iliad images imagination infert inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft laſt loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt nature numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes preſent profe publiſhed Quintilian Racine raiſed reaſon remarkable repreſent reſpect ſays ſcene ſeem ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſtanza ſtory ſtriking ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſh writing