An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... merits and real character of an admired author , and on other collateral fubjects , that will naturally arife . No love of fingularity , no affectation of paradoxical opinions , gave rife to the following work . I re- vere the memory of ...
... merits and real character of an admired author , and on other collateral fubjects , that will naturally arife . No love of fingularity , no affectation of paradoxical opinions , gave rife to the following work . I re- vere the memory of ...
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... merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this ...
... merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this ...
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... merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in their cor- rect and mufical verfification ; mufical , to a degree of which rhyme could hardly be thought capable : and in giving the first spe- cimen of that harmony in English verfe , which ...
... merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in their cor- rect and mufical verfification ; mufical , to a degree of which rhyme could hardly be thought capable : and in giving the first spe- cimen of that harmony in English verfe , which ...
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... merits and character . Thomson was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfer- vations : his ...
... merits and character . Thomson was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfer- vations : his ...
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Joseph Warton. fatyric or moral poetry , will never fucceed , with equal merit , in the higher branches of this art . In his ode on the taking Namur , are inftances of the BOMBASTIC , of the PROSAIC , and of the PUERILE . And it is no ...
Joseph Warton. fatyric or moral poetry , will never fucceed , with equal merit , in the higher branches of this art . In his ode on the taking Namur , are inftances of the BOMBASTIC , of the PROSAIC , and of the PUERILE . And it is no ...
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