An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page iv
... most excel- lent one of the art . We do not , it fhould feem , fufficiently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET Donne and Swift , were un- doubtedly men of wit , and men of fense ...
... most excel- lent one of the art . We do not , it fhould feem , fufficiently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET Donne and Swift , were un- doubtedly men of wit , and men of fense ...
Page ix
... most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the Qui fit " Mæcenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whe- ther by any ...
... most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the Qui fit " Mæcenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whe- ther by any ...
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... most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention . OUR author , who had received an early tincture of religion , a reverence ...
... most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention . OUR author , who had received an early tincture of religion , a reverence ...
Page 14
... most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo mifery and destruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumstances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
... most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo mifery and destruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumstances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
Page 15
... most splendid images , and carried on by perpetual , and those very beautiful , per- fonifications . The fong begins with a sudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition ...
... most splendid images , and carried on by perpetual , and those very beautiful , per- fonifications . The fong begins with a sudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition ...
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