An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page viii
Joseph Warton. words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical spirit , all your inver fions and tranfpofitions will not disguise and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre ...
Joseph Warton. words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical spirit , all your inver fions and tranfpofitions will not disguise and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre ...
Page ix
... paffage ? --Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of ...
... paffage ? --Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of ...
Page x
... paffage of Voltaire , which , in my 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 ...
... paffage of Voltaire , which , in my 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 ...
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... paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tran- flator Virgil , he has merited but little ap- plaufe . It may not be unentertaining to fee * Paft . ii . ver . 21 . Ibid . ver . 65 . Paft . iv . ver . 81 ...
... paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tran- flator Virgil , he has merited but little ap- plaufe . It may not be unentertaining to fee * Paft . ii . ver . 21 . Ibid . ver . 65 . Paft . iv . ver . 81 ...
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... : 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 ...
... : 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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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