An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... origin to the 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 ...
... origin to the 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 ...
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... original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master . If it fhould be objected , that the barrenness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the ...
... original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master . If it fhould be objected , that the barrenness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the ...
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... inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps the dignity , the energy , and the simplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets C 2 in AND GENIUS OF POPE . II.
... inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps the dignity , the energy , and the simplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets C 2 in AND GENIUS OF POPE . II.
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... original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his defcriptions have therefore a diftinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting . to those , of poets who have only copied from each ...
... original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his defcriptions have therefore a diftinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting . to those , of poets who have only copied from each ...
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... originals , excepting a few of those blemishes intimated above . WINTER is in my apprehenfion the most valuable of these four poems , the scenes of it , like thofe of Il Penferofo of Milton , being of that awful , and Rivers , page 4 ...
... originals , excepting a few of those blemishes intimated above . WINTER is in my apprehenfion the most valuable of these four poems , the scenes of it , like thofe of Il Penferofo of Milton , being of that awful , and Rivers , page 4 ...
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