An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... last great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleasing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic ...
... last great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleasing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic ...
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... last - mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumstance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting species of composition , lived and wrote in Sicily ...
... last - mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumstance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting species of composition , lived and wrote in Sicily ...
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... last Eclogues of Virgil are indisputable proofs of true genius , and power of fancy . The influence of war on the tran- quillity of rural life † , rendered the subject * Ver . 85 . of + I have been lately highly entertained with the ...
... last Eclogues of Virgil are indisputable proofs of true genius , and power of fancy . The influence of war on the tran- quillity of rural life † , rendered the subject * Ver . 85 . of + I have been lately highly entertained with the ...
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... last has expref- fively painted the changeful resolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt ex- clamations , of a disappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS OF POPE consists ...
... last has expref- fively painted the changeful resolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt ex- clamations , of a disappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS OF POPE consists ...
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... last , was with justice con- vinced , that the scriptures of God contained not only the purest precepts of morality , but the most elevated and fublime strokes of ge- nuine poesy ; strokes as much superior to any thing Heathenism can ...
... last , was with justice con- vinced , that the scriptures of God contained not only the purest precepts of morality , but the most elevated and fublime strokes of ge- nuine poesy ; strokes as much superior to any thing Heathenism can ...
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