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 home- felt pleasure , than Pope + could poffibly ex- perience upon the same occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately under- stand any ...
... must have heard the murmurings of a brook , and the whispers of a pine , * with more home- felt pleasure , than Pope + could poffibly ex- perience upon the same occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately under- stand any ...
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... must suffer in a literal translation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- mong the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pose the chaplet which adorns your head . " * " ८८ 66 POPE ...
... must suffer in a literal translation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- mong the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pose the chaplet which adorns your head . " * " ८८ 66 POPE ...
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... must do a noble En- glish poet the justice to observe , 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 En- glish poet the justice to observe , 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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... must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest 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 folemn, and pensive kind ...
... must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest 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 folemn, and pensive kind ...
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... must yield to the unparalled sweetness and copiouf- ness of the Greek . " Tantò est sermo gr¿cus latino jucundior , says Quintilian , in his twelfth book , ut noftri poet¿ , quoties dulce carmen esse voluerunt , illorum id nominibus ...
... must yield to the unparalled sweetness and copiouf- ness of the Greek . " Tantò est sermo gr¿cus latino jucundior , says Quintilian , in his twelfth book , ut noftri poet¿ , quoties dulce carmen esse voluerunt , illorum id nominibus ...
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