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 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 ...
... opinion in question . He has more than 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 ...
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 impu- tation of malignity , or the clamours of po- pular prejudice . It is fomething strange , that in the paf- torals of a young poet there fhould not be found a fingle rural ...
... opinion is founded , I fhall be entirely unmoved at the impu- tation of malignity , or the clamours of po- pular prejudice . It is fomething strange , that in the paf- torals of a young poet there fhould not be found a fingle rural ...
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... opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting species 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 species of compofition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The climate of Sicily was delicious , and the face of the country various , and ...
Page 51
... 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 cloſely compofition Corneille criticiſm defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh epiftles eſpecially Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fuperior fylphs genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Iliad images imagination 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 reafon repreſent reſpect ſay ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpeech ſpirit ſtanza ſtate ſtory ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſhes writing