An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page vii
... lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious than the method he prescribes , of trying whether any compofition be effentially poetical or not ; which is , to ...
... lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious than the method he prescribes , of trying whether any compofition be effentially poetical or not ; which is , to ...
Page viii
... lines ; " Yes , you defpife the man that is confined to books , " who rails at human kind from his study ; " tho ' what he learns , he speaks ; and " may perhaps advance fome general " maxims , or may be right by chance . The coxcomb ...
... lines ; " Yes , you defpife the man that is confined to books , " who rails at human kind from his study ; " tho ' what he learns , he speaks ; and " may perhaps advance fome general " maxims , or may be right by chance . The coxcomb ...
Page ix
... lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any procefs of critical chymistry , ! you can lower and reduce them to the tamenefs of profe . You will find that they will appear like Ulyffes ...
... lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any procefs of critical chymistry , ! you can lower and reduce them to the tamenefs of profe . You will find that they will appear like Ulyffes ...
Page 12
... lines which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious addition of circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following ...
... lines which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious addition of circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following ...
Page 20
... lines are incomparably good , * is not fo full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE digreffion that defcribes the demoli* See particularly , ver . 151 . tion of the thirty villages by William the ...
... lines are incomparably good , * is not fo full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE digreffion that defcribes the demoli* See particularly , ver . 151 . tion of the thirty villages by William the ...
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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