An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... perhaps advance fome general " maxims , or may be right by chance . The coxcomb bird , fo grave and fo talk" ative , that cries whore , knave , - and " cuckold , from his cage , tho ' he rightly " call many a paffenger , you hold him no ...
... perhaps advance fome general " maxims , or may be right by chance . The coxcomb bird , fo grave and fo talk" ative , that cries whore , knave , - and " cuckold , from his cage , tho ' he rightly " call many a paffenger , you hold him no ...
Page x
... perhaps afhamed or afraid to speak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his model Boileau , for whom it was originally defigned ...
... perhaps afhamed or afraid to speak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as exactly characterizes POPE , as it does his model Boileau , for whom it was originally defigned ...
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... perhaps may be one reason , among others , why we have never yet feen a fair and candid criticifm on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or ...
... perhaps may be one reason , among others , why we have never yet feen a fair and candid criticifm on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or ...
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... , 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.
... , 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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... perhaps a more proper and interefting subject for poetry than the former ; as such kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : pity being a stronger sensation than complacency . Accordingly a noble ode on the destruction ...
... perhaps a more proper and interefting subject for poetry than the former ; as such kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : pity being a stronger sensation than complacency . Accordingly a noble ode on the destruction ...
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