An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Joseph Warton. gil , and Spenfer , are indeed here exhibited in language equally mellifluous and pure ; but the descriptions and fentiments are trite and common . That the defign of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed ...
Joseph Warton. gil , and Spenfer , are indeed here exhibited in language equally mellifluous and pure ; but the descriptions and fentiments are trite and common . That the defign of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed ...
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... language , and which , as its beauties are not of a fugacious kind , as depending on par- ticular customs and manners , will ever be perused with delight . The scenes of Thom- fon are frequently as wild and romantic as those of Salvator ...
... language , and which , as its beauties are not of a fugacious kind , as depending on par- ticular customs and manners , will ever be perused with delight . The scenes of Thom- fon are frequently as wild and romantic as those of Salvator ...
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... languages , abounding in monofyllables , and crowded with confonants . This particularly is the case of the English ... language itself , as well as all others , muft yield to the unparalled fweetnefs and copiouf- nefs of the Greek ...
... languages , abounding in monofyllables , and crowded with confonants . This particularly is the case of the English ... language itself , as well as all others , muft yield to the unparalled fweetnefs and copiouf- nefs of the Greek ...
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... stanza of Mr. Weft's ode on the barons procuring magna charta , which I chuse to give at length , because it contains almost all the the different measures of which the English language feems capable AND GENIUS OF POPE . 69.
... stanza of Mr. Weft's ode on the barons procuring magna charta , which I chuse to give at length , because it contains almost all the the different measures of which the English language feems capable AND GENIUS OF POPE . 69.
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Joseph Warton. the different measures of which the English language feems capable . * THE next LYRIC compofitions of Pope , are two choruses inserted in a very heavy tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buck- ingham ; in ...
Joseph Warton. the different measures of which the English language feems capable . * THE next LYRIC compofitions of Pope , are two choruses inserted in a very heavy tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buck- ingham ; in ...
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