An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... things smelt of summer and smelt of autumn , Παν ' ̓ως δεν θερεος μαλα ποιον θ ' , ως δὲ δ ̓ οπωρης , † were prefent and real . Succeeding writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abundant to be real , referred them to the ...
... things smelt of summer and smelt of autumn , Παν ' ̓ως δεν θερεος μαλα ποιον θ ' , ως δὲ δ ̓ οπωρης , † were prefent and real . Succeeding writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abundant to be real , referred them to the ...
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... thing Heathenism can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccefsfully verfified in an Eclogue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil ...
... thing Heathenism can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccefsfully verfified in an Eclogue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil ...
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... not affected ; a free , lofty , and truly divine fpirit predominates through the whole . Nor is any thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of of this ode with abfolute beauty ; nor can the 18 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... not affected ; a free , lofty , and truly divine fpirit predominates through the whole . Nor is any thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of of this ode with abfolute beauty ; nor can the 18 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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... 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 inftances ; but in ...
... 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 inftances ; but in ...
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... thing where we fhould never have looked to meet with it . I must do a noble English poet the juftice to obferve , that it is this particular art that is the very diftinguishing excellence of COOPERS - HILL ; throughout which , the ...
... thing where we fhould never have looked to meet with it . I must do a noble English poet the juftice to obferve , that it is this particular art that is the very diftinguishing excellence of COOPERS - HILL ; throughout which , the ...
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