An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Joseph Warton. words : and in this unadorned manner to perufe the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical spirit , all your inverfions and tranfpofitions will not difguife 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 inverfions and tranfpofitions will not difguife and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre ...
Page ix
... paffage ? --Why , that it is moft excellent fenfe , but juft as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recommends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil ...
... paffage ? --Why , that it is moft excellent fenfe , but juft as poetical as the Qui fit " M¿cenas " of the author who recommends this method of trial . Take any ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil ...
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... 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 tranflator Virgil , he has merited but little applaufe . It may not be unentertaining to see Paft . ii . ver . 21 . Ibid . ver . 65 . + Paft . iii . ver . 24 . Paft ...
... paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranflator Virgil , he has merited but little applaufe . It may not be unentertaining to see Paft . ii . ver . 21 . Ibid . ver . 65 . + Paft . iii . ver . 24 . Paft ...
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... an Eclogue , that 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.
... an Eclogue , that 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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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