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 should 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 sense ...
... most excel- lent one of the art . We do not , it should 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 sense ...
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Joseph Warton. make a POET ; that the most solid obfer- vations on human life , expressed 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 solid obfer- vations on human life , expressed 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 excellent sense , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradise Lost , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and see whe- ther by ...
... most excellent sense , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradise Lost , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and see whe- ther by ...
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... most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accusation 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 accusation 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 pleasing and agreeable objects , so misery and destruction are as forcibly delineated in the same Ifaiah , by the circumstances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
... most pleasing and agreeable objects , so misery and destruction are as forcibly delineated in the same Ifaiah , by the circumstances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
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