An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... king , be faid to be pro- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs furprifing , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained so unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sici- lian ...
... king , be faid to be pro- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear lefs furprifing , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained so unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sici- lian ...
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... kings , And heap'd with products of Sabæan springs . * As profperity and happiness are described in this Eclogue by a combination of the most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo mifery and destruction are as forcibly delineated in the ...
... kings , And heap'd with products of Sabæan springs . * As profperity and happiness are described in this Eclogue by a combination of the most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo mifery and destruction 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 in- fult 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 in- fult with reproaches the broken power of their most implacable foe ...
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... kings : immediately all of them arise from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather con- folation from his calamity . Art thou also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto ...
... kings : immediately all of them arise from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather con- folation from his calamity . Art thou also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto ...
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... king himself speaking , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is won- derfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body ...
... king himself speaking , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigiousness of his ruin is won- derfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; a new perfonage is immediately formed : Thofe are introduced who found the body ...
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