An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page vii
... opinion in question . He has more than once difclaimed 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 ...
... opinion in question . He has more than once difclaimed 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 ...
Page x
... opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his model Boileau , for whom it was originally defigned . " INCAPABLE PEUTETRE DU SUBLIME QUI ELEVE L ' AME , ET DU SENTIMENT QUI L ' ATTENDRIT , MAIS FAIT POUR ECLAIRER CEUX A QUI LA ...
... opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his model Boileau , for whom it was originally defigned . " INCAPABLE PEUTETRE DU SUBLIME QUI ELEVE L ' AME , ET DU SENTIMENT QUI L ' ATTENDRIT , MAIS FAIT POUR ECLAIRER CEUX A QUI LA ...
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... opinion is founded , I fhall be entirely unmoved at the imputation of malignity , or the clamours of popular prejudice . It is fomething strange , that in the paftorals of a young poet there fhould not be found a fingle rural image that ...
... opinion is founded , I fhall be entirely unmoved at the imputation of malignity , or the clamours of popular prejudice . It is fomething strange , that in the paftorals of a young poet there fhould not be found a fingle rural image that ...
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... opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting fpecies of compofition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The climate of Sicily was delicious , and the face of the country various , and ...
... opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting fpecies of compofition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The climate of Sicily was delicious , and the face of the country various , and ...
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... opinion , that descriptive poetry is a compofition as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not presume to say it is equal , either in dignity or utility , to thofe ...
... opinion , that descriptive poetry is a compofition as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not presume to say it is equal , either in dignity or utility , to thofe ...
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumſtances compofition Corneille criticiſm defign deſcribed deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficiently fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Homer Iliad images imagination infert inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft laſt loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt nature numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes preſent profe publiſhed Quintilian Racine raiſed reaſon remarkable repreſent reſpect ſays ſcene ſeem ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſtanza ſtory ſtriking ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſh writing