An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting species of compofition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The ...
... mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting species of compofition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The ...
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... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the fuppofed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the ima- gination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll ...
... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the fuppofed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the ima- gination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll ...
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... mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( discord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , + had been particular and pic- turefque , inftead ...
... mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( discord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , + had been particular and pic- turefque , inftead ...
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... mentioned the ruftic monuments and fimple epitaphs of the swains , the amiable poet falls into a very natural re- flection : For who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleafing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of ...
... mentioned the ruftic monuments and fimple epitaphs of the swains , the amiable poet falls into a very natural re- flection : For who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleafing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of ...
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... mentioned , The quail that clamours for his running mate ? Or the following natural image , at the fame . time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawr , as fwells the breeze , A whitening shower of vegetable down Amufive floats . Where ...
... mentioned , The quail that clamours for his running mate ? Or the following natural image , at the fame . time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawr , as fwells the breeze , A whitening shower of vegetable down Amufive floats . Where ...
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumſtances cloſely compofition Corneille criticiſm defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh epiftles eſpecially Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fuperior fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Iliad images imagination 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 reafon repreſent reſpect ſay ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpeech ſpirit ſtanza ſtate ſtory ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſhes writing