An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... rules without genius , is of no effect . * On yonder plain , Along whofe willow - fringed fide These choruses are The filver - footed Naids , fportive train , Down the smooth Thames amid the cygnets glide , I faw , when at thy ...
... rules without genius , is of no effect . * On yonder plain , Along whofe willow - fringed fide These choruses are The filver - footed Naids , fportive train , Down the smooth Thames amid the cygnets glide , I faw , when at thy ...
Page 101
... rules , as well as in many happy and beautiful illuftrations , and applications of the old ones . We are indeed amazed to find fuch a knowledge of the world , fuch a maturity of judgment , and fuch a penetration into human nature , as ...
... rules , as well as in many happy and beautiful illuftrations , and applications of the old ones . We are indeed amazed to find fuch a knowledge of the world , fuch a maturity of judgment , and fuch a penetration into human nature , as ...
Page 113
... rules of harmony and mufic . But must a man , therefore , who has an ear , and has ftudied the rules of mufic , of neceffity have a voice or hand ? can no one poffibly judge a fiddle , but who is himself a fidler ? can no * Louis 14. P ...
... rules of harmony and mufic . But must a man , therefore , who has an ear , and has ftudied the rules of mufic , of neceffity have a voice or hand ? can no one poffibly judge a fiddle , but who is himself a fidler ? can no * Louis 14. P ...
Page 124
... rules of the Epopea were all drawn from the Iliad and the Odys- fey ; and of Tragedy , from the EDIPUS of Sophocles . A petulant rejection , and an im- plicit veneration , of the rules of the ancient critics , are equally deftructive of ...
... rules of the Epopea were all drawn from the Iliad and the Odys- fey ; and of Tragedy , from the EDIPUS of Sophocles . A petulant rejection , and an im- plicit veneration , of the rules of the ancient critics , are equally deftructive of ...
Page 125
... rules , where no liter- ary dictator had authority to prescribe . " The fame penetrating and judicious author , who always thinks for himself , has also ano- ther paffage too full of strong sense , and too appofite to the subject before ...
... rules , where no liter- ary dictator had authority to prescribe . " The fame penetrating and judicious author , who always thinks for himself , has also ano- ther paffage too full of strong sense , and too appofite to the subject before ...
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