An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... POET . Donne and Swift , were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but what traces have they left of PURE POETRY ? Fontenelle and La Motte are entitled to the former character ; but what can , they urge to gain the latter ? Which ...
... POET . Donne and Swift , were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but what traces have they left of PURE POETRY ? Fontenelle and La Motte are entitled to the former character ; but what can , they urge to gain the latter ? Which ...
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Joseph Warton. make a POET ; that the most folid obfervations on human life , expreffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the ...
Joseph Warton. make a POET ; that the most folid obfervations on human life , expreffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the ...
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... indeed have gained the title of a man of wit , and a man of fenfe ; but , I am confident , would not infist on being denominated a POET , MERELY on their account . NON NON SATIS EST PURIS VERSUM PERSCRIBERE VERBIS . 14 It vi DEDICATION .
... indeed have gained the title of a man of wit , and a man of fenfe ; but , I am confident , would not infist on being denominated a POET , MERELY on their account . NON NON SATIS EST PURIS VERSUM PERSCRIBERE VERBIS . 14 It vi DEDICATION .
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... POET , on the fcore of his ethic and fatiric pieces . NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS —————— are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious ...
... POET , on the fcore of his ethic and fatiric pieces . NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS —————— are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious ...
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... poets may , I think , be be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the first class , I would place , first , our only three fublime and pathetic poets ; SPENSER , SHAKESPEARE , MILTON ; and then , at proper intervals ...
... poets may , I think , be be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the first class , I would place , first , our only three fublime and pathetic poets ; SPENSER , SHAKESPEARE , MILTON ; and then , at proper intervals ...
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