An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... painted the changeful refolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt exclamations , of a disappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in their correct and ...
... painted the changeful refolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt exclamations , of a disappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in their correct and ...
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... painted chiefs admire Our speech , our colour , and our strange attire . And the benevolence and poetry of the fucceeding wish , are worthy admiration , * Ver . 400. et feq . E 2 Till Till the freed Indians , in their native groves ...
... painted chiefs admire Our speech , our colour , and our strange attire . And the benevolence and poetry of the fucceeding wish , are worthy admiration , * Ver . 400. et feq . E 2 Till Till the freed Indians , in their native groves ...
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... painted by POPE , each of them with their proper infignia and attributes . ENVY her own fnakes fhall feel , * And PERSECUTION mourn his broken wheel ; There FACTION roar , REBELLION bite her chain , And gasping FURIES thirst for blood ...
... painted by POPE , each of them with their proper infignia and attributes . ENVY her own fnakes fhall feel , * And PERSECUTION mourn his broken wheel ; There FACTION roar , REBELLION bite her chain , And gasping FURIES thirst for blood ...
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... painted wings , and breast that flames with gold ! where this exquifite picture heightens the distress , and powerfully excites the commiferation , of the reader . To this purpose I may add a paffage in an ODE to Fancy , † which I have ...
... painted wings , and breast that flames with gold ! where this exquifite picture heightens the distress , and powerfully excites the commiferation , of the reader . To this purpose I may add a paffage in an ODE to Fancy , † which I have ...
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... 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 other , and have never looked ...
... 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 other , and have never looked ...
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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