An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... rules without genius , is of no effect . These choruses are * On yonder plain , Along whose willow - fringed fide The filver - footed Naids , sportive train , Down the fmooth Thames amid the cygnets glide , I faw , when at thy ...
... rules without genius , is of no effect . These choruses are * On yonder plain , Along whose willow - fringed fide The filver - footed Naids , sportive train , Down the fmooth 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 muft 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 muft 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 Odysfey ; and of Tragedy , from the EDIPUS of Sophocles . A petulant rejection , and an implicit veneration , of the rules of the ancient critics , are equally deftructive of ...
... rules of the Epopea were all drawn from the Iliad and the Odysfey ; and of Tragedy , from the EDIPUS of Sophocles . A petulant rejection , and an implicit 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 another paffage too full of strong fenfe , and too appofite to the fubject before ...
... rules , where no liter<< ary dictator had authority to prescribe . " The fame penetrating and judicious author , who always thinks for himself , has also another paffage too full of strong fenfe , and too appofite to the fubject before ...
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