An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... enjoy , a work of imagination , twentyrare to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires zásca fatires of Ariofto , are more read than the Orlando DEDICATION V.
... enjoy , a work of imagination , twentyrare to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires zásca fatires of Ariofto , are more read than the Orlando DEDICATION V.
Page vii
... any compofition be effentially poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the K words : words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the DEDICATION . vii.
... any compofition be effentially poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the K words : words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the DEDICATION . vii.
Page viii
Joseph Warton. words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical spirit , all your inverfions and tranfpofitions will not difguife and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre ...
Joseph Warton. words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical spirit , all your inverfions and tranfpofitions will not difguife and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre ...
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... manner characterize the different countries which were to be gathered together on this important event , and says only in undistinguishing terms , * Ifaiah , c . lx . v . 4 , 6 , 7 . < c never heard A found fo difmal as their parting ...
... manner characterize the different countries which were to be gathered together on this important event , and says only in undistinguishing terms , * Ifaiah , c . lx . v . 4 , 6 , 7 . < c never heard A found fo difmal as their parting ...
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... his remarkable fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! Thou ? Thou art dashed down to the earth , thou 16 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... his remarkable fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! Thou ? Thou art dashed down to the earth , thou 16 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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