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 rhyme , 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 rhyme , and furely not poetry : Confecrate ...
Page 55
... grace- fully introduced in the fourth ftanza , as it naturally flowed from the subject of the pre- ceding one ; the defcription of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell ...
... grace- fully introduced in the fourth ftanza , as it naturally flowed from the subject of the pre- ceding one ; the defcription of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell ...
Page 86
... grace- ful Guido would never afpire . The last piece that belongs to this Section , is the ODE entitled , THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL , written in imitation of the well known fonnet of Hadrian , addrest to his departing fpirit ...
... grace- ful Guido would never afpire . The last piece that belongs to this Section , is the ODE entitled , THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL , written in imitation of the well known fonnet of Hadrian , addrest to his departing fpirit ...
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 .
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumſtances cloſely compofition Corneille criticiſm defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh epiftles eſpecially Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fuperior fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Iliad images imagination 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 reafon repreſent reſpect ſay ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpeech ſpirit ſtanza ſtate ſtory ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſhes writing