An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Ec- logue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps ...
... produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Ec- logue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps ...
Page 19
... produce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , to this ode . * ” IT cannot be thought ftrange , that he who could fo judiciously explain , could as poetically express , the ideas of Isaiah : the latter he has performed in many ...
... produce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , to this ode . * ” IT cannot be thought ftrange , that he who could fo judiciously explain , could as poetically express , the ideas of Isaiah : the latter he has performed in many ...
Page 26
... produced a paffage of Mil- ton which I thought fuperior to a fimilar one of POPE , I fhall , in order to preserve impartiality , produce another from Milton , in which I think him inferior to the last quoted paffage , except perhaps in ...
... produced a paffage of Mil- ton which I thought fuperior to a fimilar one of POPE , I fhall , in order to preserve impartiality , produce another from Milton , in which I think him inferior to the last quoted paffage , except perhaps in ...
Page 37
... produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read , or admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of his defcription are great , and striking to the imagination ; the false gods and ...
... produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fufficiently read , or admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but the objects of his defcription are great , and striking to the imagination ; the false gods and ...
Page 71
... produce any examples , may be verified from the following among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing Κεφ . η . περί ποιητικής . a a long and very beautiful , but ill placed , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 71.
... produce any examples , may be verified from the following among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing Κεφ . η . περί ποιητικής . a a long and very beautiful , but ill placed , AND GENIUS OF POPE . 71.
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