An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... greatest and most pleasing arts of descriptive poetry , to introduce moral sentences and instructions in an oblique and indirect manner , in places where one natu- rally expects only painting and amusement . We have virtue , as Mr. POPE ...
... greatest and most pleasing arts of descriptive poetry , to introduce moral sentences and instructions in an oblique and indirect manner , in places where one natu- rally expects only painting and amusement . We have virtue , as Mr. POPE ...
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... greatest beauty is that hinted above , a simple enumeration of the appearances of nature , and of what is actually to be seen at such a time . They are not unworthy the correct and pure Tibullus . Vespere sub verno , tandem actis ...
... greatest beauty is that hinted above , a simple enumeration of the appearances of nature , and of what is actually to be seen at such a time . They are not unworthy the correct and pure Tibullus . Vespere sub verno , tandem actis ...
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... of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive poem extant , I mean , that of Lucretius . We are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of H 2 WE AND GENIUS OF POPE . 51 folemn, and pensive kind, on which a great ...
... of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive poem extant , I mean , that of Lucretius . We are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of H 2 WE AND GENIUS OF POPE . 51 folemn, and pensive kind, on which a great ...
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... the place and day , To music and Cecilia . Music the greatest good that mortals know.- Music can noble hints impart.- There * Georgic 4 , 493 . " nocte , " 52 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS We are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces ...
... the place and day , To music and Cecilia . Music the greatest good that mortals know.- Music can noble hints impart.- There * Georgic 4 , 493 . " nocte , " 52 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS We are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces ...
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... greatest " genius that ever was . I cannot but regret " these delightful visions of my childhood , " which , like the fine colours we fee when " our eyes are shut , are vanished for ever . " Atterbury had perused this early piece , and ...
... greatest " genius that ever was . I cannot but regret " these delightful visions of my childhood , " which , like the fine colours we fee when " our eyes are shut , are vanished for ever . " Atterbury had perused this early piece , and ...
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