An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page vii
... method he prescribes , of trying whether 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 ...
... method he prescribes , of trying whether 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 ...
Page ix
... method of trial . Take any ten 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 ...
... method of trial . Take any ten 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 ...
Page 23
... method to prevent fire , was an object worthy a prudent legiflator . A more amiable idea than POPE has here exhibited of the Conqueror , is given us of the fame prince , by that diligent enenquirer into antiquity the President Henault ...
... method to prevent fire , was an object worthy a prudent legiflator . A more amiable idea than POPE has here exhibited of the Conqueror , is given us of the fame prince , by that diligent enenquirer into antiquity the President Henault ...
Page 66
... method of treating them ; Metastasio is a much better lyric poet . When Boileau attempted an ode , he exhibited a glaring proof , of what will be more fully insisted on in the course of this Effay , that the writer whofe grand ...
... method of treating them ; Metastasio is a much better lyric poet . When Boileau attempted an ode , he exhibited a glaring proof , of what will be more fully insisted on in the course of this Effay , that the writer whofe grand ...
Page 72
... drawn from the fituation of the principal perfonage of the fable . Nay Sophocles hath * v . 793 . ‡ v . 795 , tv . 1235. & feq . artfully artfully found a method of making those poetical descriptions , 72 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... drawn from the fituation of the principal perfonage of the fable . Nay Sophocles hath * v . 793 . ‡ v . 795 , tv . 1235. & feq . artfully artfully found a method of making those poetical descriptions , 72 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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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