An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the fcore of his ethic and fatiric pieces . NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS are lines , often repeated , but whose mean- ing is not extended and weighed as it ...
... once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the fcore of his ethic and fatiric pieces . NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS are lines , often repeated , but whose mean- ing is not extended and weighed as it ...
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... once laid a defign of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues ...
... once laid a defign of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues ...
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... once more a race of kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold . The two epithets native and fable have pecu- liar elegance and force ; and as Peru was particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for many ...
... once more a race of kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold . The two epithets native and fable have pecu- liar elegance and force ; and as Peru was particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for many ...
Page 110
... wrote down in plain profe , not on- ly the fubject of each of the five acts , but of every scene and every speech ; so that he * Poetic . lib . 1. ver . 75 . could could e a view of the whole at once , 110 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... wrote down in plain profe , not on- ly the fubject of each of the five acts , but of every scene and every speech ; so that he * Poetic . lib . 1. ver . 75 . could could e a view of the whole at once , 110 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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Joseph Warton. could e a view of the whole at once , and fee whether every part cohered , and coopera- ted to produce the intended event : when his matter was thus regularly difpofed , he was used to say , My Tragedy is finished . ” INow ...
Joseph Warton. could e a view of the whole at once , and fee whether every part cohered , and coopera- ted to produce the intended event : when his matter was thus regularly difpofed , he was used to say , My Tragedy is finished . ” INow ...
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