An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... king , be faid to be prolific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs furprifing , if we reflect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master ...
... king , be faid to be prolific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs furprifing , if we reflect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master ...
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... kings , And heap'd with products of Sab¿an springs . As prosperity and happiness are described in this Eclogue by a combination of the most pleafing and agreeable objects , so misery and deftruction are as forcibly delineated in the ...
... kings , And heap'd with products of Sab¿an springs . As prosperity and happiness are described in this Eclogue by a combination of the most pleafing and agreeable objects , so misery and deftruction are as forcibly delineated in the ...
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... king of Babylon ; a fong abounding in the most splendid images , and carried on by perpetual , and those very ... kings and princes of the Gentiles , rejoice , and infult with reproaches the broken power of their most implacable foe ...
... king of Babylon ; a fong abounding in the most splendid images , and carried on by perpetual , and those very ... kings and princes of the Gentiles , rejoice , and infult with reproaches the broken power of their most implacable foe ...
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... kings : immediately all of them arife from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather confolation from his calamity . Art thou also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto us ...
... kings : immediately all of them arife from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather confolation from his calamity . Art thou also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto us ...
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... king himself speaking , and madly boasting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is wonderfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body ...
... king himself speaking , and madly boasting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is wonderfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body ...
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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