An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... number of these fuppofed admirers , those who appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling . Swift's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular , than Akenfide's noble ode to Lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and ...
... number of these fuppofed admirers , those who appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling . Swift's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular , than Akenfide's noble ode to Lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and ...
Page vii
... any compofition be effentially poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the K words : words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the DEDICATION . vii.
... any compofition be effentially poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the K words : words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the DEDICATION . vii.
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... numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong . §§ IN the paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranflator Virgil , he has merited but little applaufe . It may not be ...
... numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong . §§ IN the paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranflator Virgil , he has merited but little applaufe . It may not be ...
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... number of " the fkins of martens . But to return . The ftory of Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is scarcely a fingle incident in it , + Novel Abregé Chronologique de l'Hiftoire de France . tom . 1. pag . 126. To this ufeful and ...
... number of " the fkins of martens . But to return . The ftory of Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is scarcely a fingle incident in it , + Novel Abregé Chronologique de l'Hiftoire de France . tom . 1. pag . 126. To this ufeful and ...
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... numbers are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberlefs ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its ...
... numbers are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberlefs ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its ...
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