An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... original writer ever remained so unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sici- lian mafter . If it should be objected , that the barren- ness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the ...
... original writer ever remained so unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sici- lian mafter . If it should be objected , that the barren- ness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the ...
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... Virgil : although perhaps the dignity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets C 2 in AND GENIUS OF POPE . II I REMEMBER to have been informed, by ...
... Virgil : although perhaps the dignity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets C 2 in AND GENIUS OF POPE . II I REMEMBER to have been informed, by ...
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... original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfer- vations : his descriptions have therefore a dif- tinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to thofe , of poets who have only copied from each ...
... original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfer- vations : his descriptions have therefore a dif- tinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to thofe , 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 those of Il Pen- ferofo 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 those of Il Pen- ferofo of Milton , being of that awful , and Rivers , page 4 ...
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... original is Teutonic , and which therefore , is not fo mu- fical as the Italian , the Spanish , or even the French , as not having fo great a quantity of words derived from the Latin . But the Latin language itself , as well as all ...
... original is Teutonic , and which therefore , is not fo mu- fical as the Italian , the Spanish , or even the French , as not having fo great a quantity of words derived from the Latin . But the Latin language itself , as well as all ...
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