An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... last Eclogues of Virgil are indifputable proofs of true genius , and power of fancy . The influence of war on the tranquillity of rural life † , rendered the subject of * Ver . 85 . + I have been lately highly entertained with the ...
... last Eclogues of Virgil are indifputable proofs of true genius , and power of fancy . The influence of war on the tranquillity of rural life † , rendered the subject of * Ver . 85 . + I have been lately highly entertained with the ...
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... last has expreffively painted the changeful refolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt exclamations , of a disappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in ...
... last has expreffively painted the changeful refolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt exclamations , of a disappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in ...
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... last hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who shook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and destroyed it's cities ? They reproach him with the loss of the common rite of fepulture , which was defervedly ...
... last hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who shook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and destroyed it's cities ? They reproach him with the loss of the common rite of fepulture , which was defervedly ...
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... last quoted paffage , except perhaps in the third line ; first remarking that both authors are much indebted to Spenfer . † Rivers arife ! whether thou be the fon Of utmost Tweed , or Oofe , or gulphy Dun , Or Trent , who like fome ...
... last quoted paffage , except perhaps in the third line ; first remarking that both authors are much indebted to Spenfer . † Rivers arife ! whether thou be the fon Of utmost Tweed , or Oofe , or gulphy Dun , Or Trent , who like fome ...
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... last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , + had been particular and picturefque ...
... last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , + had been particular and picturefque ...
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