An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... 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 ...
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Joseph Warton. make a POET ; that the most folid obfervations on human life , expreffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the ...
Joseph Warton. make a POET ; that the most folid obfervations on human life , expreffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the ...
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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 ...
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... most pleafing and agreeable objects , so misery and deftruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
... most pleafing and agreeable objects , so misery and deftruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
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... most splendid images , and carried on by perpetual , and those very beautiful , personifications . The song begins with a sudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and ...
... most splendid images , and carried on by perpetual , and those very beautiful , personifications . The song begins with a sudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and ...
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