An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... pieces . NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS are lines , often repeated , but whose mean- ing is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious than the method he prescribes , of trying whether ...
... pieces . NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS are lines , often repeated , but whose mean- ing is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious than the method he prescribes , of trying whether ...
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... pieces with too great a quantity of light or of shade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that mixture of B error error and excellence , which alone renders every representation of A N ...
... pieces with too great a quantity of light or of shade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that mixture of B error error and excellence , which alone renders every representation of A N ...
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... pieces . e Πα που αρ ησθ ' οκα Δαφνις εακείο ; πα ποκα Νυμφαι ; Η καλα Πηνειω καλα τέμπεα , η καλα Πίνδω ; Ου γαρ δη πολεμοιο μεγαν ρουν ειχε Αναπω , Ουδ ' Αίνας σκοπιαν , εδ ̓ ̓Ακκιδα ἱερον ύδως . * Where ftray , ye muses , in what ...
... pieces . e Πα που αρ ησθ ' οκα Δαφνις εακείο ; πα ποκα Νυμφαι ; Η καλα Πηνειω καλα τέμπεα , η καλα Πίνδω ; Ου γαρ δη πολεμοιο μεγαν ρουν ειχε Αναπω , Ουδ ' Αίνας σκοπιαν , εδ ̓ ̓Ακκιδα ἱερον ύδως . * Where ftray , ye muses , in what ...
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Joseph Warton. SECT . II . Of WINDSOR - FOREST , and LYRIC Pieces . D ESCRIPTIVE Poetry was by no means the fhining talent of POPE . This af fertion may be manifested by the few images introduced in the poem before us , which are De ...
Joseph Warton. SECT . II . Of WINDSOR - FOREST , and LYRIC Pieces . D ESCRIPTIVE Poetry was by no means the fhining talent of POPE . This af fertion may be manifested by the few images introduced in the poem before us , which are De ...
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... pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penferofo ; if we may except his Ode on the Nativity of Chrift , which is indeed prior in the order of time , and in which a penetrating critic might have discovered the feeds of that ...
... pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penferofo ; if we may except his Ode on the Nativity of Chrift , which is indeed prior in the order of time , and in which a penetrating critic might have discovered the feeds of that ...
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