An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... must have heard the murmurings of a brook , and the whispers of a pine , * with more homefelt pleasure , than Pope + could poffibly experience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately understand any author ...
... must have heard the murmurings of a brook , and the whispers of a pine , * with more homefelt pleasure , than Pope + could poffibly experience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately understand any author ...
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... must do a noble English poet the juftice to obferve , that it is this particular art that is the very diftinguishing excellence of COOPERS - HILL ; throughout which , the descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ...
... must do a noble English poet the juftice to obferve , that it is this particular art that is the very diftinguishing excellence of COOPERS - HILL ; throughout which , the descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ...
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... to condemn Thomson , they must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the nobleft descriptive poem extant , I mean , that of Lucretius . WE are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of H 2 WE AND GENIUS OF POPE . 51.
... to condemn Thomson , they must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the nobleft descriptive poem extant , I mean , that of Lucretius . WE are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of H 2 WE AND GENIUS OF POPE . 51.
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... must yield to the unparalled sweetness and copioufnefs of the Greek . " Tantò eft fermo gr¿cus latino jucundior , fays Quintilian , in his twelfth book , ut noftri poet¿ , quoties dulce carmen effe voluerunt , illorum id nominibus ...
... must yield to the unparalled sweetness and copioufnefs of the Greek . " Tantò eft fermo gr¿cus latino jucundior , fays Quintilian , in his twelfth book , ut noftri poet¿ , quoties dulce carmen effe voluerunt , illorum id nominibus ...
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... must charge it folely to his own want of dexterity . What advantage , on the other hand , may he not reap , from a body of " actors that fill the stage ; that render more 335 < c CC cr lively , ftriking , and fenfible , the continuity ...
... must charge it folely to his own want of dexterity . What advantage , on the other hand , may he not reap , from a body of " actors that fill the stage ; that render more 335 < c CC cr lively , ftriking , and fenfible , the continuity ...
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